To accommodate the huge influx of people invading London during the Olympics trying to get across the Thames, Mayor Boris Johnson is having a temporary cable car system implemented:
… cable cars will run from the Greenwich peninsula to the Royal Docks, connecting the O2 Arena (formerly the Millennium Dome) and the ExCel Exhibition Centre, both of which will host numerous Olympic events. Trips will take five minutes and the system can accommodate 2,500 people per hour in each direction. This will ease the burden on London’s transport system, which is already overburdened on regular days and which is scrambling to find ways to deal with the invasion of sports fans in 2012.
Image Credit: Thames and East London Panorama by jpoirrier
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