Documents reveal today how routes including Oxford Street, Shaftesbury Avenue, Tottenham Court Road and Marylebone Road will be affected by the construction work.
The lorries will transport earth from central sites including Bond Street Station, Hanover Square, Newman Street, Oxford Street, Charing Cross Road and Goslett Yard. There are also major sites at Westbourne Park, Royal Oak and Paddington. Lorries will travel west along Harrow Road to the North Circular.
The routes link the sites to main arterial roads, such as the A40. Other roads head to the Thames, where boats will take over. The earth will be used at locations such as the 1,500-acre nature reserve at Wallasea Island, Essex. Tunnelling will take place from 2011 to 2014, and 7.3million square metres of earth weighing five million tonnes will be excavated. Work will be from 8am until 6pm. The report for Westminster's planning department says the lorry routes will "affect quality of life".



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Turning to the issues of lorries, Inspector Aspinall told the meeting about a day of City of London spot checks on HGVs, carried out on 30 September 2008 as part of the Europe-wide Operation Mermaid, which is intended to step up levels of enforcement of road safety laws in relation to lorries.

On this one day, 12 lorries were stopped randomly by City Police.

Five of those lorries were involved in the construction work for the 2012 Olympics.

All of the twelve lorries were breaking the law in at least one way.

Repeat: a 100 per cent criminality rate among small random sample of HGVs on the streets of central London.

The offences range included overweight loads (2 cases), mechanical breaches (5 cases), driver hours breaches (5 cases), mobile phone use while driving (2 cases), driving without insurance (2 cases) and no operator license (1 case).

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