Moving through London? Expect delays

LONDON (AP):

London's overstretched transit system creaked and groaned but appeared to be coping with the strain on the first working day of the Olympics.

Yesterday morning's rush hour was the biggest test yet of the host city's transport network, as spectators and tourists heading for the Games joined the city's workers during rush hour. The Games opened last Friday night.

Prime Minister David Cameron said the system was coping well.

He said there were "lots of challenges, we've got to overcome them one by one. I think everything at the moment is looking good."

Drivers faced the most difficulties. An accident closed a section of the M4, the highway that links Heathrow Airport to London. The route, busy at the best of times, has been narrowed as it approaches the city with the creation of 'Games Lanes' reserved for official Olympic traffic.

The lanes, nicknamed 'Zil lanes', after the limousines used by Soviet apparatchiks, caused worse-than-normal backups on main roads near Games venues, especially around Olympic Park in the east of the city.