Start planning your travel to the London 2012 Olympic Games and cheer on the sporting stars as they battle for glory. Whether you arrive at the Olympic Park and other Olympic venues by tube, train, coach or river, there are plenty of public transport options out there to choose from.

Travel to the Olympic Park
The closest London Underground stations to the Olympic Park are Hackney Wick and Stratford, with the latter also serving as a DLR stop. West Ham and Stratford International National Rail stations are also located close to the park. Visitors are advised to use public transport as much as possible, but for those who need to travel to the London 2012 Olympic Games part of the way by car, there are park and ride services to the Olympic Park as well as the ExCeL Centre, the Lee Valley White Water Centre and Greenwich Park. Click below for more information on the Olympic Park venue.

Olympic Park Venue Information

Pedal power
If the thought of starting your Olympic journey on a crowded tube train just doesn't appeal, you can always choose to travel to the London 2012 Olympic Games on foot or by bicycle. There are six greenway walking and cycling routes into the Olympic Park, including Lea Valley North, Hackney Parks, Victoria Park and Stepney, Limehouse Cut, Epping Forest and the Elevated Greenway, and there is also free cycling parking at the Northern Spectator Transport Mall, Southern Spectator Transport Mall and Victoria Park.

Safe journey
In order to ensure you have a safe and relatively stress-free journey, make sure you plan your travel to the London 2012 Olympic Games and make provisions for your return journey home, too. Remember that the public transport network will be much busier than usual, and this added to the airport style security and ticket checks that will be in place at the Games means that you should leave plenty of extra time for your journey.

Coach and river services
In addition to the tube and rail network, those lucky enough to get tickets to the Olympic Games also have the choice of booking coach tickets for direct travel to the Olympic Park, ExCeL and Greenwich Park. In addition, Olympic venues such as Greenwich Park, the North Greenwich Arena, The Royal Artillery Barracks and Horse Guards Parade are also accessible by boat. A 2012 Games river bus express will run a commuter style service along the Thames throughout the Olympics and Paralympic Games.

Click on the links below for more information on the London 2012 Olympic venues:

Earls Court
Volleyball

ExCeL London
Boxing, fencing, judo, table tennis, taekwondo, weightlifting, wrestling, boccia, Paralympic table tennis, Paralympic judo, Paralympic powerlifting, volleyball (sitting), wheelchair fencing

Greenwich Park
Equestrian events

Horse Guards Parade
Beach volleyball

Hyde Park
Triathlon, marathon swimming

Lord's Cricket Ground
Archery

North Greenwich Arena
Artistic gymnastics, trampoline, basketball, wheelchair basketball

Olympic Park
Includes the Aquatics Centre, Basketball Arena, BMX Track, Eton Manor (wheelchair tennis), Handball Arena, Hockey Centre, Olympic Stadium (athletics), Velodrome and Water Polo Arena

The Mall
Marathon and race walk, cycling road race

The Royal Artillery Barracks
Shooting, Paralympic shooting, Paralympic archery

Wembley Arena
Badminton, rhythmic gymnastics

Wembley Stadium
Football

All England Lawn Tennis Club
Tennis

Useful links
For more information on how to travel to the London 2012 Olympic Games, click on the links below:

London 2012 Official Site

Transport for London

See below for more information on London 2012 events.

Olympic Outdoor Screenings

London 2012 Festival

Cultural Olympiad London Festival

London 2012 Olympic Opening Ceremony

Olympic Torch Route London

Olympic Festival at Hyde Park

Olympic Festival at Victoria Park

Olympic Festival at Potters Fields

Paralympics at Trafalgar Square

London 2012 Olympic Closing Ceremony