Gallows Corner: Pipework to be completed in the next week
In a follow-up to yesterday’s story about a further delay to the opening of Gallows Corner in Romford, Essex & Suffolk Water have announced that it now expects to complete its works by next week, allowing TfL to do “the final work to allow the flyover to reopen”. Scott Haxton, Transport for London’s (TfL) director […]
Gallows Corner: Reopening date delayed again due to ‘significant’ water pipe issue
The reopening of Gallows Corner flyover and roundabout in Romford has been delayed yet again, this time due to what has been described as a ‘significant’ pipe issue. Gallows Corner, the junction that connects the A12 and the A127, was initially closed in June 2025. It was expected to open on 1 September 2025 before […]
Keep Britain Working: TfL joins effort to reduce staff sickness rates
Transport for London (TfL) is stepping up efforts to reduce the number of employee sick days as part of a government push to keep people in work. The transport authority has joined the Keep Britain Working Review – with mental health support being flagged as a key focus at TfL, says the BBC. A report […]
London’s Bus Safety Standard 2 to be launched in June
The Bus KSI Network, with support from Transport for London and Women in Bus and Coach, has announced an event at which London’s Bus Safety Standard 2 will be launched in June. The TfL Bus Safety Standard (BSS) is driving change in the bus industry by making buses safer through physical and technology innovation. The […]
Silvertown Tunnel is ‘tackling chronic congestion’, says TfL
Transport for London has said that the Silvertown Tunnel, which opened a year ago, has reduced “chronic congestion” and improved journey times. New data suggested that drivers who used the neighbouring Victorian-era Blackwall Tunnel saw journey times reduced by more than 10% during weekday peak periods, TfL told the BBC. Before the new £2.2bn link […]
TfL digitises highway licence application forms
Transport for London has completed a project working in partnership with SocietyWorks to digitise all of its highway licence application forms, using the same intuitive and user-friendly technology behind its existing highway fault reporting service, Streetcare, which is powered by FixMyStreet Pro. The new forms, built using our new FixMyStreet Forms offering, replace Microsoft Word […]
Romford residents demand TfL action over months-long delay to re-open Gallows Corner
Demands for action have been issued over the delay in reopening the Gallows Corner junction in Romford, prompting residents to call on Transport for London (TfL) to take ‘accountability’ for the nine-month delay in reopening the busy junction. The roundabout was initially closed in June 2025 and was expected to open in September. TfL now hope […]
Bus crash statistics increasing, says TfL
Transport for London (TfL) has said the number of buses damaged in collisions is rising. New figures indicate there were a total of 15,390 incidents that led to damage in 2025 and close to 16,000 in the year prior. The data was released to the BBC after a Freedom of Information (FOI) request, says the Evening Standard. The […]
Havering demands compensation for Gallows Corner ‘wear and damage’
Havering Council is to seek compensation for the “wear and damage” caused to local roads by traffic diverted from Gallows Corner. The junction has been closed for almost nine months for a major reconstruction project, which was originally meant to take 10 weeks, and is now slated to reopen by the end of April, says […]
Meeting London’s future enforcement needs: New radar-based speed cameras trialled by TfL
Transport for London (TfL), working in partnership with the Metropolitan Police Service (MPS), is trialling a new type of radar‑based speed camera at up to 10 sites across the capital. Evidence shows that exceeding the speed limit or travelling too fast for the conditions is a factor in around half of all fatal collisions, and TfL and the […]