Morning:
8°c
A NEW Tube map will show the locations of Olympic sporting events.
The Mayor wants visitors to the 2012 Games to be able to identify easily the correct stop for different events. Relevant stations could either be indicated by the Olympic rings symbol or the symbol for each sport.
Although the majority of the events take place in the Olympic Park, served by Stratford and West Ham Underground stations and Hackney Wick Overground station, there are several elsewhere in London. They include volleyball at Earl's Court, archery at Lord's, near St John's Wood, and tennis at Wimbledon.
A City Hall source said: "We want to make things as clear as possible. We want to see people moving around smoothly with a clear idea of where they're going and how they're getting there." Pictograms indicating each sport are being drawn up by the London Organising Committee of the Olympic Games and are due to be released this year.
A spokesman for Locog said: "The pictograms will be used on signposts to direct visitors to the events."
A Transport for London spokesman said: "We will be working with the Mayor, Locog and the ODA on how to best present the public information to help visitors and Londoners get around the city during the Games. The Tube map is widely recognised around the world and will clearly play a key role."
Plans for an Olympic Tube map follow the debacle over TfL's removal of the river and the zones from the existing map because it was "too cluttered".
It changed its mind after a backlash from Londoners. The map is reviewed every six months to take into account station closures and new lines and stations. Replacing new maps costs about £80,000 a time.
Reader views (9)
Dug James - I think people like Frank are justified in their anger. We're still in a bad recession where people are losing their jobs and homes, so spending £9bn on an event that's only going to last three weeks and be quickly forgotten is, to me, the most extravagent waste of public money I've ever known in my lifetime as a taxpayer.
That hideous stadium in Beijing is now standing around doing nothing. I remember seeing news bulletins years ago of working class people being thrown out of their homes to make way for that ugly blot on the landscape.
- Cally G, Essex, UK, 25/09/2009 12:46
Report abuse
Frank, you are a bitter little man. Wouldn't life be a tad better if you lightened up and looked on the positive side once in a while? Billions of people will watch and enjoy the Olympics why not think about joining them instead of sitting in your dull little room and spewing bile anytime the prospect of a positive Olympic outcome is raised?
- Dug James, clapham, 24/09/2009 17:02
Report abuse
"Do any events take place on the Thames!"
Sailing's at Weymouth, as it happens, hence the story the other day about the road project that unearthed a lot of executed warriors - there's no Tube there!
Anyway, sounds perfectly sensible to me, let's hope they show it to Boris and that he reads it, don't want the poor boy getting 'furious' again, do we?
- Tom, London, UK, 23/09/2009 10:11
Report abuse
"The Mayor wants visitors to the 2012 Games to be able to identify easily the correct stop for different events."
They'll be easy to identify, they'll be the stops that are renovated, the others will look like something from 1963.
- Bob, Cheam, 23/09/2009 09:53
Report abuse
Good idea but the Olympics is now old hat.No one really cares in this day and age about poseurs in shorts.
Some might but then they don't have a life.
- Eddie, London, 23/09/2009 09:20
Report abuse
Where will the symbol, of millions of pounds of money being flushed down a toilet, be located then?
- Lb, Bromley, 23/09/2009 02:34
Report abuse
Be better if they got the present map right first!!
Do any events take place on the Thames!
Sailing should provide a useful challenge better get out the London Connections map or even Railroute which manages to show every line in Britain when Boris can even get the East London Extension right what a plonker!
- Melvyn Windebank, Canvey Island, Essex, 22/09/2009 12:05
Report abuse
And how much will this cost us?
- Dan, London, 22/09/2009 10:15
Report abuse
This map will not be needed as nobody will be visiting the waste of money that is the Olympics.
- Frank, London, 22/09/2009 09:59
Report abuse
