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I told them we are trebling capacity at Stratford Regional Station to prepare it for the Games and for future demand, and making it more user-friendly for everyone, particularly for disabled people. By the end of 2010 - two years before the Games even begin - there will be new platforms, re-opened subways, new entrances, and new stairs and lifts to help people move around the station and to reduce congestion.

These improvements will go on to benefit the estimated 55,000 people who will use it each morning by 2012 (currently the figure is just 37,000), the 60,000 spectators during the Games, the 83,000 who are expected to use it each morning by 2016 - and those using it for decades to come.

Then there are the projects we are helping to fund with the Docklands Light Railway (DLR). We are co-funding 22 of 55 new rail cars, which will help the DLR to boost onboard capacity across most of its network by 50 per cent by 2010. That’s good news for DLR passengers before, during and long after the Games.

I said to my friend that it might also be time to invest in a bike because we are also upgrading walking and cycling paths to help encourage spectators to really get active when travelling to our ‘public transport’ Games. These paths will be there for long after the Games so people can continue to travel in this healthy and sustainable way.

Find out more about how our investment in transport for 2012 will benefit people long after - and even before - the Games in the latest issue of ‘pace’.