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The South Circular Road (formally the A205 and often simply called the South Circular) in south London, England, is a major road that runs from the Woolwich Ferry in the east to the Chiswick Flyover in the west via Eltham, Lee Green, Catford, Forest Hill, Dulwich, Tulse Hill, Clapham Common, Clapham Junction, Wandsworth, Putney, Barnes, Mortlake and Kew Bridge.
As turnpike trusts were individually run, there was the possibility for greatly differing road conditions, especially over the London Clay basin of Kensington, Brentford, Hounslow and Slough, where winter conditions left the way muddy and uneven. This was not always the case with the Bath Road, as many of the wealthy landowners along the route ...
In 1995, the London Congestion Research Programme concluded that the city's economy would benefit from a congestion charge scheme, [61] the Road Traffic Reduction Act 1997 required local authorities to study and reduce traffic volumes [62] and any future London mayors were given the power to introduce "Road user charging" by the Greater London ...
The traffic area extended for about 25 miles (40 kilometres) from Charing Cross in central London, and was thus much larger than the existing County of London or Metropolitan Police District. It included the whole of the County of London and Middlesex , much of Surrey and Hertfordshire , plus parts of Kent , Buckinghamshire, Berkshire and Essex .
A checkpoint on Moorgate in July 2014, when it was not staffed. The road narrowing and slowing of traffic are visible. The Traffic and Environmental Zone, commonly known as the "ring of steel", [1] is the security and surveillance cordon consisting of road barriers, checkpoints and several hundred CCTV cameras surrounding the City of London, the financial district at the heart of Greater London.
C6 joins the A201 near Farringdon station, heading south on traffic-free cycle track on either side of Farringdon Road. Southbound cyclists cross Farringdon Road to the south of the Holborn Viaduct, where the route continues as a two-way bike freeway towards Blackfriars Bridge.
The hill steepens to the point of getting a lot into the traffic and being stuc behind public transport until it finally flattens out at the top of Hornsey Rise at the junction with the B540 Hornsey Lane, well worth a detour for the road fan as this is the road which goes across the celebrated Archway.
The current route of the North Circular Road turns south, passing Eastern Avenue on a flyover at the Redbridge roundabout. It passes Romford Road (the historic Roman Road from London to Colchester) to the west of Ilford and London Road, Barking, and ends at a roundabout with the A13 Newham Way/Alfred's Way in Beckton. [6]