Lydia Smith said promoting the county's direct rail link to the Olympic Park at Stratford will be key to their success.

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Built 30ft above the streets, on a long -abandoned, elevated freight rail line, the public park is now double in size.

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Twelve lions were killed between 1984 and 1995 by trains running on the rail line that cuts across the park.

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Ms. Shin, a Brooklyn artist who has created public works for the Long Island Rail Road and a Battery Park City elementary and middle school, has designed pieces in mosaic and glass for the 63rd Street station, which will be expanded to accommodate the Second Avenue line.

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The interactive map, which incorporates disused rail lines and park paths, will be updated by 10 "ambassadors".

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Richard Schofield from Network Rail said plans for a station at the Cambridge Science Park was a definite scheme by the site's developer and would be implemented in the next two to three years.

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"People want to drive their cars a mile or two to a park-and-ride, and then take the rail in on the most congested part of the trip, " he said.

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The seven-mile (11km) route would have gone from Mickleover and Mackworth to Pride Park, with a possible extension to the High Speed 2 rail hub at Toton.

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Network Rail said new stations would be built at the Ricoh Arena in Coventry and Bermuda Park near Nuneaton.

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Almost 6, 000 have signed a Stop the Rail Freight Exchange (STRiFE) group petition, asking the authority to keep Radlett Airfield in Park Street from developers HelioSlough.

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