Boris Johnson has hinted that the travel problems many expected to dog London during the Olympics have failed to materialise.

Speaking outside a meeting of senior politicians and Olympics chiefs, he told reporters that many people qualified to use the Games lanes which criss-cross the city had instead been opting to take public transport, exclaiming that even IOC chief Jacques Rogge had chosen to travel on the Docklands Light Railway.

As a result, he suggested that some parts of the Olympic Route Network have been suspended.

Mr Johnson did not qualify which sections were being suspended, or whether they could be reinstated at a later date.