PEDESTRIANS and cyclists will be able to use the Avenue running through Greenwich Park from later this week.
Limited access to the road through the park will be restored from September 14th, six days later than was previous planned.
London 2012 organisers put the delay down to the “large amounts of infrastructure that must be removed, and the large amount of construction lorries required to take equipment away.”
Cyclists will be able to use the Avenue in both directions between 6am and 8.30am, and from 5.30pm until Park closing times. It’s due to reopen fully, including for use by cars, on October 1st.
Graham Dear, Greenwich Park Manager, The Royal Parks, said: “Work to reinstate the areas of the Park used for the Cross Country event is already well underway and progress is good and we are now preparing to reinstate the remaining areas of the park once all the temporary infrastructure is removed. Meanwhile, it is great to see local people already making use of the large areas of the park which began to reopen in early August.”
No tennis until October
Anyone inspired by Andy Murray’s historic US Open win in the early hours of this morning will have to wait a little longer to take to the courts in Greenwich Park.
It’s been announced that the reopening of the tennis courts in the park has been delayed from mid-September until the beginning of October. A temporary surface was laid over the courts and fences taken down temporarily during London 2012 so that horses could use it as a warm-up area.
Murray, the first British male to win a Grand Slam since 1936, will be in action in Greenwich in November when he competes in the ATP World Tour Finals at the O2.