The London Games In Motion Transport For London And The 2012 Olympics And Paralympics

Download or read book The London Games in Motion written by Transport for London (Organization) and published by Laurence King. This book was released on 2013 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: As soon as London won the bid to host the 2012 Olympic and Paralympic Games in 2005, plans were put in place to deal with the enormous transport challenges that this would present. Over the seven-year period that followed, Transport for London oversaw a huge number of upgrades and infrastructure improvements to London's transport network. Accompanying these construction projects, was a major publicity campaign and planning process to ensure that the thousands of visitors could travel to the games as swiftly as possible, while allowing ordinary Londoners to carry on their daily lives.