FM Conway - Going the Extra Mile

We put down temporary tape lining and sign peels to indicate the road realignments that were in force during the Olympic Games.

he worked side by side with TfL for over a year. John did all the Design work for the Networks, and managed the co-ordination with TfL. John even managed to second some AECOM people (such as Matthew Cerrone, the Build Manager) onto the project, so that Dana and her TfL colleagues would get to know their faces, and would start to think of CONWAY AECOM as an established team. So, while John and Matthew maintained a high-level presence at Palestra, co-ordinating with TfL and the other Olympic stakeholders, the rest of the team – Andrew Milligan (Project Manager), James Tallon (Operations Manager), and Dharyll Ryce (Project Engineer) – were out in the Boroughs doing the implementation. Much of the work on the Route Networks was new to us involving measures that were mostly temporary: road realignments, re-modelling of junctions, traffic signal changes, new pedestrian islands, kerb build-outs, etc. It also involved a considerable amount of new thinking and product innovation: tape lining and sign peels that could be put up and taken down overnight; ‘stick-down’ kerbs; solar luminaires for the new street signs; the use of ‘grey’ (recycled) water for temporary barriers, etc. All the work had to be carried out in the shortest time periods so as to minimise traffic disruption across London. Traffic flow through the Strand Underpass, for example, had to be temporarily reversed. This involved changes to tunnel lighting, traffic signs, and road markings – and all of this had to be completed during the course of one very wet and stormy night, so that the road could be re-opened at 6.45 the next morning. Whitehall itself, from Trafalgar Square down

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