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Beyond Tooting Bec, the road is named Upper Tooting Road, before it becomes Tooting High Street as it passes Tooting Broadway station. At the station, the A24 and CS7 meet the A217 / Garratt Lane . St George's Hospital is situated to the northwest of the A24, west of Tooting Broadway station.
The station building is a corner lot, located at the junction of two major roads, which are A24 Tooting High Street and A217 Garratt Lane. South Thames College is just outside the station, while St. George's Hospital is a few minutes' walk away. Other attractions nearby include Tooting Market, Tooting Methodist Church and Tooting Primary School.
In the 1990s the Merton Abbey industrial area was re-developed as a retail park. Part of the Merton Park - Merton Abbey - Tooting Junction trackbed became Merantun Way, diverting the A24 trunk road to bypass Merton High Street. The site of Merton Abbey station is now occupied by a roundabout midway along Merantun Way and a petrol station.
Tooting has a large British Asian community and has gained the nickname "land of the curry mile" due to the concentration of South Asian restaurants. [15]In the 2011 census, Tooting was White or White British (47%), Asian or Asian British (28.8%), Black or Black British (15.5%), Mixed/multiple ethnic groups (5%), and Other ethnic group (2.9%).
Tooting Bec, originally Trinity Road (Tooting Bec), is a London Underground station in Tooting, South London. The station is on the Northern line, between Balham and Tooting Broadway stations. It is located on the junction of Trinity Road (heading north-west), Upper Tooting Road (south-west), Balham High Road (north-east), Tooting Bec Road ...
Route N133 commenced operation on 24 January 2003 between Tooting and Liverpool Street bus station. On 1 September 2007 it was diverted at Streatham to Mitcham . Having been operated by London General since its inception, upon being re-tendered it was taken over by Arriva London on 22 January 2010.
The station opened in 1894 as Tooting Junction, replacing an earlier station of the same name, which was located a few hundred yards west and had opened in 1868.It was renamed Tooting in 1938, following the closure of the branch line from Tooting to Merton Park to passenger traffic in 1929.
Garratt Lane in 2008. Garratt Lane is a long street (numbered to 1085) in the London Borough of Wandsworth, part of the A217 road.It connects Wandsworth High Street to Tooting Broadway and is approximately 4 kilometres (2.5 miles) long, arguably making it the longest street in the UK (0.5 miles longer than King Street in Aberdeen).