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LONDON -- Londoners, forced to navigate a vast city using one of the largest and oldest public transit systems in the world and a road network first laid out by the Romans, are not noted for suffering transportation woes in silence. But the everyday grumbling here sharpened Wednesday as the restrictions and increased demands of the Olympic Games began to bite. London has spent more than $9 billion on refurbishing its creaking transportation infrastructure -- parts of its underground train network date from 1863 -- in time for the Games. The road and rail system will face a million trips a day in addition to the usual 3.5 million when the Games begin Friday, transportation officials warned in a news conference on Tuesday. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

LONDON -- London's commuters have been warned to expect gridlock on the roads and paralysis on the subways. They have been advised to leave home well before rush hour; to travel by foot, bicycle or boat; and to forget about trying to drive anywhere even remotely connected with the Olympics. And so John Horner, seasoned commuting veteran, has devised a simple personal transportation strategy for the Summer Games: go nowhere. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

Focuses on the conflict between the motorists and parking enforcement officials in London, England. Efforts of traffic accident victim Nadhim Zahawi to lobby against the British parking enforcement system; Motorists' complaints against tickets that people never receive but are penalized for not paying; Role of the law that shift parking enforcement from police to local councils on the problems in the system.

Reports the outcome of the adoption of the traffic scheme of London Mayor Ken Livingstone on February 17, 2003.

Talks about the proposed traffic reduction plan in London, England as of January 2003.