Is The Queen going by Tube to 2012 Olympics?

ela.editorial@archant.co.uk
31 October 2007

I HEARD on the radio the 2012 London Olympics organisers say "100 per cent of visitors to the Games will arrive by public transport."

If this is true, it means the Queen and Prince Phillip will have to walk from Buckingham Palace to Victoria station, get the overcrowded District Line to West Ham, change onto the Jubilee Line to Stratford, then hop on a bus to the Olympics Park.

Of course, we all know they won't be using public transport, along with politicians, corporate sponsors and a myriad of VIPs and officials.

If the bigwigs had to use the Underground or buses, they would bring immediate pressure to ease the overcrowding on London's public transport.

James Birkett

Welwyn-street, Bethnal Green