More than 150,000 people have visited the Olympic Park on bus tours with thousands more having been to the Greenway to look it and the new 25 minute audio tour will offer these visitors an insight into the creation of the London 2012 venues, parklands and infrastructure and their legacy.

"The regenerated Greenway is a popular vantage point to see how the Olympic Park is changing the skyline of East London," said Jonathan Edwards, the Sydney 2000 Olympic triple jump champion and world record holder, who launched  the tour.

"This tour will help explain how this transformation has been achieved and how the venues, infrastructure and parklands will work during and after the Games."

Local students were the first to take the tour with Edwards,  now a London 2012 Board member, while the Olympic Park tour video and audio podcasts were created in partnership with Loftus Audio, based in Shepherds Bush.

The tour video and audio podcasts can be downloaded with maps and transcripts at www.london2012.com/audiotour and starts at the View Tube cafe and community venue.

The View Tube cafe was partly funded by the Olympic Delivery Authority (ODA) and is a short walk from Pudding Mill Lane DLR station.


Meanwhile the multi-million pound improvement works on the 2.3 kilometre stretch of The Greenway, which links the Olympic Park to Victoria Park and West Ham Station, have been designed by London-based architects Adams and Sutherland working closely with Arup although Volker Fitzpatrick carried out the works.

During the Games, Olympic Park is looking to create a green backdrop for the Games and a new green space after 2012 for people and wildlife living in and around the area to enjoy.

The southern part of the Park will focus on retaining the festival atmosphere of the Games, with riverside gardens, markets, events, cafes and bars.

The northern area will use the latest green techniques to manage flood and rain water, while providing quieter public space and habitats for hundreds of existing and rare species, from kingfishers to otters.

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