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I often get asked - most recently at a meeting with students last week - what we think the toughest challenges are for the and the ³ÉÈËÂÛ̳.

Externally it's not difficult to spot them - transport, security, the sheer scale of the organisation needed. But internally there's one that crops up a lot that we haven't previously shared. So as part of the occasional series where we seek your feedback on our planning for 2012, it's time to talk about "navigation".

The story starts from our pledge to deliver more content from the London Games than ever before. At peak times we intend to bring in 24 streams of live content to the ³ÉÈËÂÛ̳'s website - which is four times more than - and we'll cover

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It was a pretty routine Monday morning on the tube network. My District Line service was slightly delayed by a person ill on the train ahead.

There were longer delays on the Bakerloo Line because of a signal failure at Waterloo, while services in East London were held up by a fire check near Liverpool Street.

But like hundreds of thousands of other Londoners, I made it to a meeting and then to work on time - just a regular commute on a regular day.

The reason for paying closer attention than usual was that the meeting was about transport in London during Olympic Games time - and it's a theme being put in the spotlight by the Transport Commissioner Peter Hendy today in a meeting with London Assembly members and representatives of the 33 boroughs.

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