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Olympics: Impact on Transport and Travel
With an estimated 5.3 million visitors expected, tubes, trains, buses and roads will all be operating beyond capacity, making it difficult to travel around London. In fact, the UK Government is actively asking residents to reduce their footprint across London during the Games.
Road Network
To assist Olympians and Paralympians in getting across London a temporary Olympic Route Network (ORN) and Paralympic Route Network (PRN) has been planned, linking every Olympic venue, both within London and across the UK. These include core routes that will be heavily used every day of the games and have the most extensive traffic management measures.
The aim of these Route Networks is to keep London moving throughout the period of the Games, and continue ‘business as usual’. However, we are expecting significant disruption, with some closed and others subject to extended parking controls. Parking restrictions will also mean constrained loading times, making general driving, and especially the movement of household goods deliveries around London, very difficult.
Sterling has maps available for every day of the Olympic and Paralympic Games for you to check where the busiest areas will be on the day that you require.
Public Transport
It is expected that a vast majority of spectators will be travelling to events around London using the tube and DLR, placing added pressure on an already very busy network. As a result of this most lines will be busier than normal but the impact will vary by location. In addition to stations local to each event, particularly around Stratford and Greenwich, stations further away that act as important interchanges will also be affected.
Several parks around London will be acting as LiveSites, where spectators can view live events on big screens; this will affect the streets around these locations, as well as the stations in the vicinity.
Sterling has pulled together comprehensive resources explaining how the Games will affect each line on the underground network, as well as a more detailed look at selected individual stations which are expected to be heavily affected.