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Walking Walking is healthy and sustainable, and often the quickest and most efficient way to get around, so we are encouraging spectators to walk as much as possible to get to the London 2012 Games. In many cases, walking to a venue is much quicker and easier than you may think. Walking to or from a venue gives you the opportunity to see many sights on the way, and soak up the atmosphere of being in a Host City.  Travelling by foot is the best way to see London, especially during the Games when other forms of transport will be busy. If walking the whole way to your venue in London is not an option, consider getting off the bus or train a stop early to avoid busy stations and see what London has to offer. London 2012 Active Travel Programme The London 2012 Active Travel Programme aims to encourage more walking and cycling in the run-up to the Games, during and after the Games to help London 2012 meet its aim of being the first sustainable Games. Find out more about the Active Travel Programme. Walking to Games venues London 2012 has invested over £10m in making improvements to a network of eight walking and cycling rotues linking different parts of London to the Olympic Park and other venues. The main routes to the Olympic Park and River Zone venues that have been enhanched are: Lea Valley North - routes to the north of the Olympic Park through the Lee Valley Regional Park Epping Forest - a new route from the north-east of the Olympic Park through Wanstead and Epping Forest Elevated Greenway - follows the route of the northern outfall sewer east from the Olympic Park to Beckton Lower Lea and The Royal Docks - from the south of the Olympic Park to the Isle of Dogs, and on to Maritime Greenwich and other River Zone venues via the Thames Path. Limehouse Cut - from Limehouse Basin to the Olympic Park along the Limehouse cut Victoria Park and Stepney - connects the Olympic Park to Islington and Limehouse Basin along the Regent's and Hertford Union Canals