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Mizter T · March 20th 12, 01:27 PM posted to uk.transport.london

On 20/03/2012 13:56, d wrote:

On Tue, 20 Mar 2012 12:55:46 +0000
Mizter wrote:
What transport? There's no new stations. What regeneration? Westfield
would have been built anyway according to the developers, and anything
else might just about make up for all the business that were knocked
down to make way for the gigantic white elephant.

Significant ODA transport funding has for instance gone towards the
North London Line upgrade (both new trains and infrastructure), the DLR

That had nothing to do with the olympics.

The NLL serves Stratford and Hackney Wick. Like it or not, the NLL
upgrade was part funded by the ODA. See the TfL document I posted a link to.

three car project (both rolling stock and infrastructure), and the new
DLR route from Stratford International to Canning Town (which includes
new stations).

You mean the DLR project that spent millions rebuilding a heavy railway
into a light railway over the exact same route for no logical reason?

Apart from it providing a far better local service (more local stations,
more frequent trains) which thus far seems to have been quite a success
in terms of passenger numbers.

This press release is hardly up to date, but it's indicative:
http://www.tfl.gov.uk/corporate/media/newscentre/archive/21104.aspx