Getting spectators to the Games on time
Iain Coucher, 28 Jul 2008
Last week I took the opportunity to visit some of
Network Rail’s key projects for the London 2012 Games. This involved a tour of our major work taking place at
Stratford Regional Station, the Stratford City development and the Olympic Park itself.
Our work is central to the successful delivery of the Park and the London 2012 Games overall. We need to deliver our work on time, within the resources that are available to us and without jeopardising the other projects that we are committed to. This can only be done through collaboration and partnership working and from what I have seen so far, this is working extremely well.
ODA Director of Transport, Hugh Sumner and I during the visit:
Key projects, such as the upgrade work at Stratford Regional Station and the work that has been done on the Orient Way sidings, clearly demonstrate that close working with all our partners delivers success.
But it is not just about east London and the Olympic Park, our work across the whole of the country is just as important. Our improvement work is crucial to getting spectators to the Games on time, as well as keeping the rest of the UK network ticking over normally whilst the Games are in full swing. We will be working with the ODA and the train operating companies to plan the rail network for 2012 so that everybody gets to where they need to be.
I thoroughly enjoyed the trip that highlighted to me the sheer importance of our work not only to the Olympic Park, but the UK as a whole.
