London 2012 blog

It’s five years since I first got involved with the team at Transport for London tasked with thinking about how the Docklands Light Railway (DLR) would meet demand in 2012 if the London bid was successful. The team was headed by Hugh Sumner, now Director of Transport for the Olympic Delivery Authority (ODA).

Standing next to a DLR train:



My role was to develop initiatives that would help carry the millions of spectators to and from the four Games competition venues that are situated near the DLR network: the Olympic Park, the Royal Artillery Barracks in Woolwich, Greenwich Park and the ExCeL centre. These initiatives were in addition to the schemes already planned or funded through the £10bn five-year TfL Investment Programme, such as extensions to Woolwich Arsenal (opening in 2009) and Stratford International (opening in 2010), and the lengthening of DLR trains from two to three carriages across the network by 2010.

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