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Cover of The London Games in Motion

The London Games in Motion

by Boris Johnson

OlympicsTransportation, great britainLocal transitPlanningOlympic Games (30th : 2012 : London, England)Olympic Games (30th : 2012 : London, England) (uri) http://id.loc.gov/authorities/names/nb2006008174 (uri) http://viaf.org/viaf/sourceID/LC|nb2006008174

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.

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