Transport planning for 2012

A number of online resources are available to help businesses, residents and visitors plan for travel during the London 2012 Games.

Transport for London (TfL) and London 2012 have published detailed day-by-day road, Tube and DLR information and advice for travel during the London 2012 Olympic and Paralympic Games. Businesses are advised to plan around this information, which reveals challenges in a number of locations at certain times.

The travel information will also be useful to residents who commute to London for work and visitors who will be heading to the Games venues. Residents and visitors can check how their journey may be affected and plan ahead to try and avoid delays.

Affected areas in Royal Greenwich

Here are some main points relating to the borough of Greenwich. Residents and businesses may wish to avoid the following areas during the affected times if alternative routes are available.

• Roads in the Greenwich, Peninsula and Woolwich areas are expected to be high impact areas for the duration of the London 2012 Olympic Games until 12 August 2012.
• North Greenwich Tube station - passengers are likely to experience long waits (in excess of 30 minutes) between evening and midnight between 30 July and 10 August, excluding weekends. Morning travel is expected to be unaffected during this period.
• Greenwich DLR station - passengers are likely to experience waits of more than 30 minutes from the early afternoon to evening on many days between 30 July and 9 August. On Monday, 30 July, the long wait times occur between 6pm and 10pm. On some mornings between 8am and 11am, passengers may have to wait up to 15 minutes to board a service.
• Cutty Sark DLR station will not be in normal use - details of how it will operate have not been finalised.
  
• Woolwich Arsenal DLR station is not shown as a 'hotspot' station.

View details and maps of affected areas

The road and Tube station 'hotspot' maps and accompanying travel advice are based on the latest data and information on which TfL is developing its own operational transport plans.

To view the maps and other travel advice, please visit:

• www.getaheadofthegames.com
• or www.tfl.gov.uk/2012.

On the roads, the maps show the impact for each day of the Games and on the days immediately preceding.  Alongside the road 'hotspot' maps, TfL has developed an online road journey planning tool, which shows the additional journey time for those road journeys that really must be undertaken at the busiest times and in the busiest locations, such as the delivery of perishable goods.

On the Tube and DLR, detailed station descriptions have been produced, showing the impact at 30 of the affected stations, day-by-day and at half-hour intervals. They show the impact at stations if nothing was done to manage the demand from Games spectators and regular customers, taking into account seasonal demand patterns.

According to TfL, two thirds of Tube and DLR services and 70 per cent of road traffic in the capital will not be affected.