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Preparing for the Olympics: the good, the bad and the ugly

Most transport arrangements are vitally necessary...

Phil Goodwin
26 August 2011
It is significant that the VIP travel lanes for the Olympic Games focus on the expensive London hotels of Park Lane, says Phil Goodwin
It is significant that the VIP travel lanes for the Olympic Games focus on the expensive London hotels of Park Lane, says Phil Goodwin

 

Not everybody is as delighted by the idea of London being the host of next year’s Olympic Games as the orthodox rictus enthusiasm, but many people are, and there is every reason to expect that there will be a fine display of sport and maybe even a ‘legacy’. Certainly I am personally already benefiting hugely from the opening of the new London Overground line in East London, whose funding was (cleverly) part of the Olympic package and whose north-south orientation will remain...

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Phil Goodwin

Phil Goodwin

Phil Goodwin

Phil Goodwin is professor of transport policy at the Centre for Transport and Society, University of West of England, Bristol, and emeritus professor at University College London. Email: philinelh@yahoo.com

 



 

 
 
 

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