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FTA voices worries over road 'chaos' when the Olympics come to London
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LONDON SPECIAL
CONCERNS have been raised over the impact the 2012 Olympics in London could have on the ability of transport firms to carry out their work.
Gordon Telling, London policy manager at the Freight Transport Association, claims the extra traffic in the capital over the three weeks the games take place, along with the creation of an Olympic Route Network (ORN), has the potential to seriously disrupt access to shops for delivery drivers, as well as affect other services such as street cleaning and refuse collection. The URN will be a network of roads giving games officials, athletes and the media priority at certain times in the mornings and evenings towards Olympic venues such as Stratford, Wembley and Wimbledon. The Department for Transport has just ended its public consultation on proposals for the roads to be included.
Telling says:"What doesn't seem to have been worked out yet is whether shops will be required to hold more stock during the period the games are on, and if they will be able to take deliveries from alternative locations, such as the rear of a building rather than the front.
"We don't expect the routes to be as restrictive as in Beijing but we would like to know what we will be agreeing to.
"The potential is there for quite a chaotic situation to develop and the situation has to be got right': Mike Fisher, chairman of London Councils' Transport and Environment Committee, says: "London is already a very congested city, and we need to have a joined-up approach to ensure that our roads do not grind to a halt during the Olympics"