Well obviously someone somewhere in the world has died and someone-else has pointed it out however the first of what will be many extremely busy periods on the London Underground (LU) network seems to have passed off without major incidents. The London Olympic hosts will no doubt use this as an opportunity to talk your ears off about all the wonderful crowd control techniques LU staff use (while the government makes most of them redundant) but really it does just come down to good humour because LU will periodically have to close stations temporarily in order to allow the crowds the clear.
As for alternative routes that really depends on where you're trying to travel from and where you're trying to travel too. However as a general rule the national overground rail network and the Docklands Light Railway (DLR) are better because their stations aren't built into a tunnel hundreds of feet underground and therefore can be much larger. If you are travelling to the Olympic park in Stratford though it is better to take either the District Line (shown on maps in green), the Hammersmith & City Line (salmon) or the Jubilee Line (grey) to West Ham and then take a short walk from West Ham to the Olympic park. It may rain but trust me even that will be more pleasant then the Central Line.
Incidentally the London Organising Committee Olympic Games (LOCOG) have decided that today will see the start of the diving competition. So let's hope local favourite Tom Daley is the only one who'll tumble off a platform today.
09:40 on 30/7/12.
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