TfL wants new bus lanes on Swandon Way, two new High Street crossings and cycle lanes up East Hill. The consultation closes on Friday 6 November; here is what changes where.

Transport for London wants to add bus lanes, crossings and cycle lanes across Wandsworth town centre, and residents have until Friday 6 November to comment. The plan keeps the one-way system. It does not replace it.

TfL dropped its long-running scheme to remove the gyratory in 2025. It says it could not secure the funding, because of the scheme’s impact on general traffic and bus journey times and rising construction costs. The new proposals are what it calls “medium term interventions” instead. (TfL, Wandsworth Town Centre bus and walking improvements)

What TfL is proposing, street by street

Wandsworth High Street:

  • a new pedestrian crossing halfway between the Putney Bridge Road junction and Wandsworth Plain
  • a new signal-controlled crossing halfway between Garratt Lane and Fairfield Street
  • wider pavements at bus stop U (Wandsworth Southside, outside the King’s Arms) and bus stop P (Wandsworth Town Hall, west of St Ann’s Hill)
  • the bus lane extended to the Buckhold Road junction
  • some loading and parking bays in bus lanes and near stops removed, changed or moved
  • road markings realigned to encourage lower speeds

Buckhold Road and Garratt Lane junctions: wider waiting islands and wider, realigned crossings at both. Buckhold Road would get a northbound mandatory cycle lane and a new northbound bus lane near bus stop W. At Garratt Lane, northbound buses would get their own route into Ram Street.

East Hill and Huguenot Place: wider bus lanes, and new mandatory cycle lanes eastbound from east of Fairfield Street to Geraldine Road and north to Dempster Road. Some bays would be removed or moved. The crossing over Geraldine Road would be widened.

Swandon Way to Armoury Way: new northbound and southbound bus lanes on Swandon Way, with narrower general traffic lanes. That would mean no right turn south-westbound from Swandon Way into the BP fuel station. Bus stop TB would get a wider pavement, and the island and crossings at the Old York Road junction would be widened.

Fairfield Street: a new bus lane, a widened crossing at Fairfield Drive and a new signal-controlled crossing over Fairfield Street where it meets Armoury Way, Old York Road and Swandon Way.

Ram Street and Wandsworth Plain: some bays moved or removed, and wider bus lanes to make room for cycling in both directions.

What TfL says it would do to journey times

TfL has published its own modelling of the effect:

Who Morning peak Afternoon peak
Buses 170 southbound, 37 westbound, 337 westbound 2 to 4 minutes quicker mostly 1 to 2 minutes quicker
General traffic on most routes through the centre about 2 to 5 minutes quicker about 2 to 3 minutes quicker
Northbound traffic from Lavender Walk and Battersea Rise towards Wandsworth Bridge 2 to 3 minutes slower not given

For other bus routes it expects smaller savings, or “a minor increase in journey times at some times of day”, which it does not expect passengers to notice.

TfL says the problems it is trying to fix are crowded pavements and crossings, bus delays and overcrowding at some stops. Asked why the plan does not do more for cycling, it says the proposals focus on what can be built in the medium term and on “the issues people told us were most important”.

A lower limit on Swandon Way, separately

TfL is also cutting the speed limit on the A217 Swandon Way, from Wandsworth Roundabout to Fairfield Street, from 30mph to 20mph. That is part of phase 4 of its Lowering Speed Limits programme, which it says will start in early 2027. Phase 4 covers seven places across London, and this is the only one in Wandsworth. The work is mostly new signs and road markings. (TfL, Lowering Speed Limits programme)

Wandsworth Council is doing its own smaller jobs in the meantime. TfL says these include better lighting and pedestrian access under the railway bridges on The Causeway and Swandon Way, and planting on the High Street.

What it means for you

  • If you catch the 170, 37 or 337 through the town centre: TfL says your morning journey would be a few minutes quicker.
  • If you drive north from Battersea Rise to Wandsworth Bridge in the morning: TfL’s own figures say that trip gets 2 to 3 minutes slower.
  • If you fill up at the BP on Swandon Way: the right turn in from the south-west would go.
  • If you cycle up East Hill: you would get a mandatory cycle lane to Huguenot Place and Geraldine Road.
  • If you run a business that uses the loading bays on the High Street, East Hill or Ram Street: check the detailed maps for your bay before you respond.

How to respond

Fill in TfL’s survey on the consultation page by Friday 6 November 2026. TfL says it takes no more than ten minutes, and there is a shorter quick response option. The page also has a written version of the survey, Easy Read, audio and British Sign Language versions, and a question tool.

After it closes, TfL will publish a consultation report and then decide whether to go ahead, change the plans or drop them. It has not given a date for building any of it.

The Thames Water works at Buckhold Road, which have the A3 on temporary signals until 6 November, are covered in our Wandsworth roadworks and travel page.

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