HR OLYMPICS SPECIAL


Transports of delight?


London’s transport infrastructure could make or break the games. DAVID WOODS meets Transport for London’s Olympic supremo, Mark Evers. It won’t be business as usual, he says, but it will be fantastic


D 18 HR March 2012


oes the following ring a bell? It’s 7:30am and your head is lodged in someone’s armpit, while someone else’s elbow is digging sharply into your back. You can’t move


any of your limbs. You’re clinging onto the coffee the reason for buying which you can’t remember, terrified it will spill. You arrive at work tired and stressed, ready to go straight back to bed, but you know full well that after you deal with meetings, emails and spreadsheets, you’ll have to go through the commute all over again. And again. And again. That’s right, folks, it’s the great British daily


commute on public transport. The above example is based on a good day in London – one, that is, with no planned engineering work, leaves on the line, ‘passenger action’ or the dreaded signal failure. The crowding on London’s train and tube


services has been a water cooler talking-point for years: there’s an estimated seven million living in Greater London and approximately 300,000 employees travel to work in the City of London alone. But with the Olympics looming – and an


expected nine million more people ready to descend on the capital for 17 hotly-anticipated days in July and August – the capital’s transport


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Simon Brader


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