adminOrganisers are determined that spectators will get to the Games, which open in the British capital on July 27, by public transport, bicycle, or on foot.
But London’s roads and ageing underground train network are already overcrowded — and many doubt the fans, athletes, officials and journalists can get to the venues without bringing the rest of the capital grinding to a halt.
“London is a big city, and can I absolutely guarantee to you that nothing will go wrong? No, I can’t,” Britain’s Olympics Minister Hugh Robertson admitted recently.
“We’ve done everything we think we were expected to do to make it work,” he said of the Olympic transport plan. If people follow the government’s travel advice, everything “should be alright”.
That advice, plastered all over the Underground in recent months, suggests a range of measures Londoners that can take to avoid the crushes — including walking, cycling, avoiding busy routes and busy times, or working from home. — AFP.
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