How 385,000 will cycle or walk to see the Olympics

About 385,000 spectators are expected to travel to the 2012 Olympic Games in London on foot or by cycle, under plans unveiled today.

More than 4,400 spectators will pedal on peak days, according to the Olympic Delivery Authority. A further 10,000 will walk. Experts believe it will be the largest number of people to cycle to an Olympic Games and underlines the organisers' determination that it will be a largely "car-free" event.

The ODA today confirmed it would spend at least £11.5million on improving the capital's cycle and walking network for this aim.

Another multi-million-pound fund is being created to improve the Greenway, a strip of land inside and adjacent to the Olympic Park.

The first cycle route, linking green spaces in Hackney, will run from Finsbury Park to Victoria Park, where 5,000 free bike parking spaces will be created. From here, spectators will walk across the Greenway into the Olympic Park. The second path will run for 6.3 miles from Epping Forest across Wanstead Flats to the Olympic Park.

Six other cycle routes will be upgraded, with clearer signage and demarcation for walkers and cyclists. Potholes will be filled and routes widened to cope with traffic. Dropped kerbs for wheelchair users will be added and crossings over main roads improved, the ODA document, Move, states. The area north of the Olympic Park will get 2,000 bike parking spaces, with 200 spaces to the south.

Under the £7.5million Greenway plan this 4.3-mile path and green space, on an embankment from Beckton in Newham to Victoria Park in Tower Hamlets, will be overhauled. The Greenway will give access to the Olympic Park for a fifth of spectators. Most improvements on the Greenway will remain after the Games. Mayor Boris Johnson hailed the "legacy of some fantastic new green ways of getting about the city".