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By John Biggs
The Winter Olympics in Vancouver have held a special interest as we look to lessons we can learn for our Olympics.
We've seen the enthusiasm and pride of the city but we've also seen press reports that Vancouver's public transport system couldn't cope.
The DLR has been in a state of constant expansion since its inception in 1982 when the emerging Docklands developments demanded a dedicated transport link.
The original layout of the network saw routes from Island Gardens via Poplar to Stratford and, to the West, to Tower Gateway.
The focus of Olympic sport might be on Vancouver at the moment but that doesn't mean work stops on organising the 2012 Games.
While the world is watching the winter events unfold in Canada Debbie Jevans and her team are busy ensuring preparations for London stay on track.
Olympic 400m champion Christine Ohuruogu has been unveiled as the official patron of the 2010 Balfour Beatty London Youth Games.
The 25-year-old Newham & Essex Beagles athlete is lending her support to Europe's largest annual youth sport event, which sees over 47,000 participants from the 33 boroughs competing in 30 different sports.
Public support for the 2012 Olympics is still high according to a new survey.
Confidence about staging a successful Games has grown to 79 per cent from 76 per cent last year, with 75 per cent of people pleased London is hosting the showpiece. This compares with 78 per cent in a survey a year ago, conducted following Team GB's success at the Beijing Olympics.
The wave-shaped roof of the Olympic Aquatics centre has been put in place as work on the 2012 venues continues ahead of schedule.
Designed by Zaha Hadid the 160m long structure was lowered into place this week in one of the most complex engineering challenges of the project.
Legacy has been one of the keywords for the 2012 Olympics even before London was awarded the Games in 2005.
In the four years since great strides have been made in developing the infrastructure for the Games but less tangible are the long-term employment benefits for east London.
Gordon Brown may be feeling the heat as an election approaches but he can find an unlikely supporter in one former sparring partner.
Cherie Blair, who famously in her memoirs accused Brown of hounding her husband Tony out of office, said she was confident Conservative leader David Cameron would not be celebrating in the national vote.
Rush hour tube travel was suspended for more than 20 minutes this morning after an eastbound train limped into North Greenwich station.
No Jubilee line trains were in operation between London Bridge and Stratford from 9.20am to 9.44am while engineers resolved the problem, and delays are still occurring in both directions.
Ambling past the tables of his recently-opened restaurant, fourth generation salmon smoker Lance Forman gazes out of his window at the Olympic stadium heaving up across the river.
"We've got the best view in town of the stadium", he said. "We're as close as it gets. There will be no better place to watch the fireworks on opening night."
A giant sliced salmon is beached on the side of the River Lea, looking out over the Olympic Stadium. Its bones are roof trusses, its guts are a factory which bubbles into life around 4am, and its pink hue was touched up by builders just before its opening in October last year.
Welcome to Forman's Fish Island, the new home of the east end's last family-run salmon smokery.
Wharfers face more travel problems this weekend when the DLR shuts for engineering work.
The line between Canary Wharf and Lewisham will be suspended on Saturday, while the Poplar/Westferry to Lewisham route will be closed on Sunday.
The Jubilee line is still returning to normal after a rush-hour suspension this morning.
Service was suspended for half an hour while emergency services responded to a person who became ill on a train at Bermondsey.
Eastern Jubilee line services were shut down last night as police tried to talk down a woman threatening to hurl herself from a bridge.
British Transport Police stopped trains between North Greenwich and Stratford at around 10pm last night, as officers attempted to persuade the teenager not to throw herself onto the track.
Lord Sebastian Coe admitted he was delighted with the ringing endorsement from the IOC's Co-ordination Commission after their visit to check London's preparation for the 2012 Olympic Games.
Lord Coe, chairman of the London Organising Committee (Locog), spoke to The Wharf about the visit and the increased importance the Games have for London's economy.
London's Olympic Park will become a centre of academic as well as athletic achievement under plans unveiled by Boris Johnson.
The Mayor of London and the Government have published a proposal to develop a world-class research, learning and innovation centre at the Stratford site.
Building work has started over a month early on the media centre for the London Olympics.
Work has started to sink 2,100 concrete piles up to 24m into the ground for the foundations of the International Broadcast Centre (IBC) and Main Press Centre (MPC) for the 2012 Olympic and Paralympic Games.
It's nearly a decade since the arrival of the Jubilee Line brought life to the Canary Wharf estate.
But the line must now expand even further to meet the challenges of the growing hive of commuters.
DLR customers are waiting to gauge the impact of a re-opened Tower Gateway station on their daily commute.
The company has revealed the new timetable – and it’s a mixed bag for passengers who have complained of overcrowding on the Woolwich extension.
East London has been promised “radical change� even after the Olympics have left in 2012.
The deprived region has been promised schools, a sports academy and 10,000 new jobs as part of a legacy masterplan unveiled this week.
