Walking and cycling changes on Tooley Street and Duke Street Hill

Consultation update 19 August 2022 

We have now considered all of the issues raised by the respondents to the consultation. We have also reviewed other data we collected, such as cycling rates and the effects of the changes on bus journey times and other traffic. We found that there has been a 25% increase in the number of people cycling on Tooley Street and no significant delays for buses or other traffic.

You can read our responses to the issues raised by respondents to the consultation. We have also published a report to show what effects the scheme has had on cycling rates, bus journey times and general traffic. 

Having considered the data and the responses to the consultation, we have decided to retain the changes we made to Tooley Street and Duke Street Hill permanently.  

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Consultation update 23 March 2022

We held a six-month consultation between 17 May and 17 November 2021 on experimental changes we made to Tooley Street and Duke Street Hill.

We received 222 responses to our consultation in total, including four from stakeholders.  

We have now published a Consultation Report to set out the outcomes of the consultation, but we have not yet made any decisions about how to move forward.  You can read our consultation report and the appendix to the report in the Documents section of this page.

Once we have made a decision about how to move forward we will write to the respondents to the consultation with a response to each of the issues raised in the consultation.

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This consultation is now closed and we’re grateful to everyone who took part. We are now considering the feedback we received and will publish a Consultation Report as soon as we can in 2022. At this point we will also set out our next steps.

Overview

We have made some changes to Tooley Street and Duke Street Hill as part of an experiment. We hope these changes will help people who can to walk and cycle more, to help maintain space on public transport for those who need it and help people to avoid using their cars as much as possible.

We want to know your views and experiences of these changes. We are holding a six-month consultation on the Tooley Street experimental scheme. You can reply by following the link to the Survey below. We want this consultation to be accessible to everyone.

There is an Easy Read version of our materials in the ‘Documents’ section. There is also an Easy Read version of our survey. In the bottom right-hand corner, there is also a British Sign Language video which includes audio. If you need to translate this page into another language, please use the ‘Select language’ button in the bottom-left hand corner of this page.

The purpose of this scheme 

Busy location

London Bridge is Britain’s fourth busiest National Rail station and the fifth busiest station on the Tube network. We anticipate there will be an increase in customers arriving at London Bridge station wanting to continue their onward journeys around London by foot or cycle as lockdown measures are eased and limited public transport capacity is utilised by those who need it most. The numbers of people cycling in the area is high and we expect this will increase as more people return to work and social activities.

Enabling walking and cycling

Tooley Street is a key strategic cycling corridor and is in the top 5% for current and future cycling demand in London. The route is already popular with people cycling and the opening of Cycleway 4 further east is likely to increase cycling demand even more. Creating a safer cycling corridor here will link with Cycleway 4 between Tower Bridge Road and Rotherhithe with changes on London Bridge. It will also link to future improved cycling infrastructure in Deptford, Greenwich and Woolwich.

Keeping people safe 

In the three years ending June 2020, there were 27 collisions which led to people being hurt. Of these, 15 collisions involved people cycling being injured; one person was seriously injured.

A map giving an overview of the changes we will be making can be found in the 'Documents' section.

Information to help you respond 

There is additional information in the ‘Documents’ section of this page. This information explains in more detail:

• How this consultation will work, including what decisions we will make with your feedback
• Why we have chosen to introduce this scheme experimentally
• How we will be monitoring the effects this scheme has, and how we will know if the experiment is a success or not
• What impacts we think the experiment scheme will have
• A summary of the changes we have made
• A copy of our consultation questionnaire, in case you would prefer to complete it offline and post it to our Freepost address (which is FREEPOST TFL HAVE YOUR SAY)