Transport in London Unit 7

London is the capital of England and the United Kingdom, the largest metropolitan area in the United Kingdom and the largest urban zone in the European Union by most measures.
With increasing industrialisation, London's population grew rapidly throughout the 19th and early 20th centuries. Its population peaked at 8,615,245 in 1939 immediately before the outbreak of the Second World War. There were an estimated 7,556,900 official residents in Greater London as of mid-2007.

We're going to follow Freddie as he explores all the different kinds of transport in London. He's a television researcher and he starts out from his home on his bicycle.He liaves his bike at the station and gets on a train. 1.8 million people travel into the centre of London by train every day.

The next part of Freddie's journey is on another kind of train called the Docklands Light Railway. For many people the jouney by train takes them to a convenient Underground station.
Freddie catches a bus for the last part of his journey, London has now got double-length buses- called "bendy buses".

People use lots of other forms of transport in London. Some people use boats on the River Thames to go to work. There is one kind of transport that isn't very good in London - and that's the car. They move slowly because there is too much traffic.
So that was today. What's Freddie doing tomorrow? He's doing the same journey all over again to find out more.