It looks like the East Marsh, part of Hackney Marshes, the world’s biggest complex of football pitches, is about to disappear under concrete, to form a coach park for the London Olympics. I was hoping it was never going to happen, as a quarter of the marsh is already fenced off, and that construction site […]
Category Archives: Olympic Park
London Olympics – Cycling Road Race Route
The final route for the cycling road race, at next year’s London Olympics, has been published today. Unfortunately it’s only available as a PDF, so I’ve plotted it on BikeRouteToaster, you can see it here. Here’s a download as a GPX file or as a KML file (for Google Earth.) I like the inclusion of […]
Mapping the London Olympics
Here’s what the Olympic Park in East London currently looks like on OpenStreetMap, following my recent tour and some other visual guestimating from outside the boundary fence: The brown areas shows the construction sites, most of which are for the Olympic Park, apart from the eastern area which is the Stratford City development and the […]
Inside the Olympic Park
A couple of weeks ago, I went on one of the daily tours of the Olympic Park in London, organised by the Olympic Delivery Authority. Anyone can now go on these tours, rather than just local residents, but you do need to book a couple of months in advance. This summer is probably the best […]
London Olympic Park Construction
Last weekend I cycled around the perimeter of the building site that will be the Olympic Park in 2012. It’s a big site – over 9km all the way around. Here’s some photos I took – click through to the Flickr pages for some slightly pithy commentary to go along with them: Direct link to […]