The Evening Standard reports:
The woman responsible for delivering the Olympic transport plan for London's boroughs said [on 27 Sept that] the strategy could end in chaos.
Catherine West, who is in charge of transport for the 33 London councils, is at loggerheads with Games planners over their proposals to ease the strain on roads and public transport by cutting journeys by a third.
The target of cutting the equivalent of almost 300,000 trips per day was unrealistic, said Ms West, leader of Labour-run Islington council.
In a bitter attack on Olympics chief Sebastian Coe, she added that London was an Olympic city divided between East End boroughs which had been "picked off" and the rest who are "not engaged at all"...
Coun West accused Games chiefs of "storing up trouble" due to a nine-month delay in transport plans for individual venues. The International Olympic Committee has privately said London needs alternative traffic plans such as a city centre driving ban.
TfL is in charge of Olympic transport policy and controls how it will be implemented on the Tube and much of the 109 miles of road lanes for Games traffic. But London boroughs are critical as they manage most roads.
Mark Evers, director of Games transport at TfL, said: "We are (confident) we will achieve the necessary changes to travel, We do not need to reduce travel by 30 per cent at all times throughout the Games period. The levels will vary from day to day depending on the events taking place."
One reader comments:
The idea that thousands of people will be cycling to the olymnpics is a joke. For a start Stratford council blocked the introduction of Boris's cycle superhighway.
Cycling [round] the Stratford gyratory is strictly for lovers of extreme sport.
From Hackney the olympic route is a joke, with a Greenway that its not clear what's for walkers and what's for cyclists.
From parts north and west there is just about no cycle routes that any normal person would want to use.
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