The Olympic Games 2012
The Olympic Games are coming to Britain in 2012. The main site for the Games will be at Stratford in East London.
Stratford already has a large rail station and beside the station a victory arch has been put up, thanking local people for their support and counting down the time to go before the Games.
One of the reasons Stratford was chosen is because the area could benefit from Urban Regeneration.
This is a typical area of Stratford.
The site for the Games is criss-crossed by electricity pylons and power lines. The power cables are being buried underground in tunnels.
The Greenway is actually a footpath along the main sewage pipe leading from the whole of London North of the Thames to a vast treatment works down the river.
Part of the Olympic site is also used for reclamation industries like this yard handling used cars. Behind are tips used to handle building waste. These activities will be hard to relocate as people would not want them near their homes.
Other businesses on the site are worried about relocation too. This firm provides smoked salmon to Central London restaurants and does not want to be further from its customers.
The Olympic site is threaded by branches of rivers and canals - all part of the River Lea. These are havens for wildlife.
There is also a track for cycling events already on the Olympic site. It is linked to a Nature Reserve.
The rail station is at the southern end of the site, at the northern end is a trunk road linking with the Motorway network.
Also at the north end of the site is a housing estate. This will be replaced by an athletes village which will become housing for local people after the Games. The area will end up with more housing than before.