Traffic Lights Woodcote Road

Work has finally started to link traffic lights at the junction of Woodcote Road / Stafford Road and at Beddington Gardens. As a result traffic will move through Wallington more smoothly, reducing pollution and helping to keep the street quieter.

The work, which is being carried out by Transport for London (TfL), has been delayed for three years! According to TfL this was because they had to reorganise their staff and then priority was given to Central and East London. There was then a further delay when TfL suggested that we added the lights south of Woodcote Road by the Public Hall car park and in Stanley Park Road to the scheme - something that we had requested in the first place!

Cabling ducts were completed in April and traffic detector equipment is now being installed in the roads and TfL expect to have the signals linked together and working by October.

But the pedestrian phase that we have asked for on the lights at Woodcote Road / Stafford Road / Stanley Park Road will not be completed yet. In fact it may be necessary to look at the lights at the Public Hall car park, outside the Sainsbury car park in Stafford Road and in Stanley Park Road as an alternative to avoid large queues of cars forming at rush hour.