A NETWORK of roads for Olympic competitors and officials could lead to £5,000 fines for unwary drivers and bring life “to a standstill”, it has been claimed.

The Olympic Route Network has been designated by the Department for Transport following a 14-week consultation and includes 44 Greenwich roads.

A core section of streets, which will include dedicated ‘Olympic lanes’ for VIPS, will run from Woolwich Barracks, which will host Olympic shooting events, up across Greenwich peninsula and through the Blackwall Tunnel.

The core route also runs right around Greenwich Park, which is hosting the 2012 equestrian events.

Under the proposals, unauthorised use of the network could lead to a £5,000 fine or a criminal record.

The designated route follows a consultation which ended in March, and has seen 17 roads removed from the proposed network, although none are from Greenwich borough.

Spokesman for the No to Greenwich Olympic Equestrian Events (Nogoe) campaign group Sev D’Souza said: “We’re not happy at all.

“I think daily life in the centre of Greenwich is going to come to a standstill.

“These are residential roads and their designation is exceedingly worrying because we don’t know exactly what this will involve.”

The route will also have temporary traffic management measures including new traffic signals, changes to permitted manoeuvres and changes to waiting and loading restrictions.

Mr D’Souza said: “They will have the powers to close the whole road whenever they feel like it.

“All these streets are densely populated and i don’t know how people and I don’t know how they’re going to get to and from their homes.”

Of all London consultation respondents - defined by the consultation as including councils, community groups and individual residents - most objections about specific roads centered on Greenwich.

Park Vista and Maze Hill received the most objections out of any roads in the consultation, 12 in all, while Park Row had 10 objections, including ones from residents’ groups and the council.

Many people also objected to the use Croom’s Hill and Shooters Hill Road, along with 39 other roads in the borough.

Reasons for objection included unsuitability, increased congestion and parking problems that would be caused.

But despite opposition these roads have all been kept in the designated network, although the department says a final decision still needs to be taken on some of them, including Maze Hill, Crooms Hill and Park Vista.

The Olympic Delivery Authority will now consult with businesses, residents and others in order to determine specifically how individual roads will be affected.

Transport Minister Sadiq Khan, who formally designated the roads, said: “This temporary solution will be implemented in a way designed to keep London and other competition areas moving, as well as leaving a positive legacy for the city in terms of improved traffic management infrastructure.”

The Department for Transport says traffic signals and CCTV will be permanently improved on the core network.

Details on the exact measures should be drawn up by summer 2010.