Hosting the Olympic Games is one of the most sought out prices any great city around the world wishes to win. After a tough contest, the next 30th Olympic Games will be held in London. Preparing the city for such an event is not easy task; there are lots of factors to keep in mind.  The two most important factors would be transportation and the venues that will accommodate the different competitions. How is the city faring on 2012 London Olympics? In this article, we will explain several of the major changes the city is undergoing, for which promises to be one of the best Olympic games ever. Regarding infrastructure, London will use new venues especially built for this Olympic Games intermixing them with historical and already built facilities that will be adapted for the games.

The Olympic Stadium, still being built, will be the centerpiece of the Olympic Games. With a capacity for 80 thousand people, state of the art services and security systems, this facility will held the opening and closing event and most of the outdoor athletic competitions. Football matches will be held in the new Wembley Stadium, a prodigy of architecture and the most expensive of its kind ever built. With a capacity for 90 thousand souls and every seat under cover, it will be a fantastic place were football teams from all over the world will be able to show their prowess. The tennis matches will take place on the All England Lawn Tennis Club, best known for the Wimbledon Tennis Championship.

The enormous dome previously known as ‘The Millennium Dome’ and now being called ‘The O2? will be the selected venue for basketball matches and artistic gymnastics. With an overall diameter of 365 meters and 1 kilometer of circumference, this incredible building would be worth visiting even if it wasn’t an Olympic venue. London Aquatics Centre, with its twin Olympic size pools and 25-meter diving pool, will be the selected building for all aquatic Olympic sports. Its curved roof and incredible architecture makes it an unique building, the best choice for the Olympics.

Transport is another very important variable to keep in mind. The Olympic Games attract literally millions of people from all around the world, which means an enormous overload of the current services. In this aspect, London showed it was not well prepared during the bidding contest to held the Olympic Games. Nevertheless, London is aware of this fact and a lot of improvements have began. Making such improvements to a city as old and with such an intricate transport system as London is not easy task.

Some of the improvements and transportation developments are:

- Upgrades to railway lines such as the North London Line and the Docklands Light Railway

- A new high-speed rail service known as the ‘Javelin’

- The expansion of London’s Underground system (namely, East London Line)

- Serving the Olympic Park with 10 separate lines with a combines capacity for 240,000 passengers per hour.

- Providing athletes with transport services that will allow them to reach any sports facility within 20 minutes.

- The ‘iBus initiative’, a state-of-the-art automatic system that will improve predictions of time at bus stops, providing real-time information, very helpful especially for impaired and disabled passengers.

- A new network of walking routes and cycling lanes that will connect the Olympic Park with the city’s wider networks of transport.

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