Waltham Forest
Streetspace for London
We are working with your borough to widen pavements at town centres and transport hubs, create temporary cycle routes on our transport network and create low traffic neighbourhoods.
Latest changes to travel
There are temporary changes to travel in London while we work on supporting the restart of the Capital including:
- Additional travel support for children and young people returning to school in September
- Suspending Concessionary travel for Older Person's Freedom pass and 60-plus Oyster card
- Resuming the Congestion Charging Zone with extended times and an increased charge. Find out more about the Congestion charge reimbursement scheme
- Resuming the Ultra Low Emission Zone
- Further update on assistance for customers with accessibility needs
Consultation on operating hours of bus lanes in London
As part of London Streetspace programme, we're proposing to trial changes to the operating hours of more than 80 kilometres of bus lanes across London to make bus journeys faster and more reliable.
We want to make sure that people choosing to travel on the bus network have the safest, quickest and most reliable journey at all times of the day. Proposals follow recent extensions to bus lane hours that have seen improvements to speeds and reliability.
The trial of 24/7 bus lanes is planned to be in place for at least six months to ensure we have enough time to properly monitor the effectiveness of the trial and any impacts. Find out more and share your views at any time online or by emailing betterbusjourneys@tfl.gov.uk.
Funding for your borough
We provide funding to boroughs and local communities for transport improvements in your local area.
Local Implementation Plan (LIP)
The LIP is produced by the London Borough of Waltham Forest and agreed with us. It sets out the details on transport infrastructure changes in a three-year period to support the Mayor's Transport Strategy.
The LIP funding stream provided by TfL to help our partners in the boroughs and the City of London has been paused while we focus on measures to increase walking and cycling and to ensure social distancing on our network.
LIP targets for Waltham Forest
Each borough has set targets in their LIP against the Mayor's Transport Strategy outcomes - we track and report on progress against these targets in the LIP3 MTS outcomes borough data pack.
For example, the car ownership in the borough was 82,998 in 2017. The LIP target to reduce car ownership by 2041 is 72,900.
Residents in Waltham Forest made an average of 519,000 trips each day between 2015 and 2018 by:
- Car and motorcycle: 34%
- Tube/DLR: 14%
- National Rail and London Overground: 5%
- Bus/Tram: 12%
- Taxi/Other: 1%
- Cycle: 2%
- Walking: 32%
We also work with boroughs to encourage more cycling. We recorded 6,890 daily cycle trips on average starting in Waltham Forest between 2015 and 2018.
More resident and visitor population figures are on the GLA website.
Vision Zero
We are working with boroughs to reduce the number of deaths and serious injuries from all road collisions to zero by 2041. They are responsible for enforcing safe speeds on their roads, as well as leading community programmes to encourage using roads safely. Find out more about Vision Zero.
In 2017 there were 92 individuals killed or seriously injured in Waltham Forest. Our target for 2022 is to reduce this number to 50.
Find out more about collisions in your borough.
What we're working on in Waltham Forest
- We consult local communities on a range of projects every year - search the TfL Consultation Hub
- Find out about major works and events near you
- See some ongoing TfL improvements and projects in or near Waltham Forest
- Find out about property development projects in your borough
Work now going on in your borough includes:
- Coppermill area Liveable Neighbourhood - improving the area bounded by Blackhorse Road, St James Street, Markhouse Road to the east, Lea Bride Road in the south and Waltham Stow Wetlands to the north and west will better connect key regeneration and growth areas
- Blackhorse junction - improving the A503 between Forest Road, the Blackhorse Road junction and Palmerston will address narrow footpaths, street furniture clutter and a bus stop at a pedestrian pinch point
Bus network changes
From time to time - after consulting the public - we alter bus routes to reflect changing patterns in demand. We also make temporary changes, often because of road works. See the latest bus changes.
Ultra Low Emission Zone (ULEZ)
To improve air quality the ULEZ will extend to parts of Waltham Forest from October 2021.
Our assets in Waltham Forest
Assets we maintain in your borough include:
- Four Tube stations
- Eight London Overground stations
- Around 500 bus stops - see all 37 day bus routes in Waltham Forest
- One bus station and Lea Interchange bus garage
- One taxi rank
- Around 140 traffic signals
- Over 8 kilometres of red routes
See a map of our assets in London.
We maintain our assets until they need to be renewed or disposed of as set out in our asset management plan. We do this by:
- Servicing them regularly to keep them operational
- Repairing or replacing faulty assets
Report a problem on a London street with our Streetcare tool.
We do not maintain in Waltham Forest:
- Non-red route roads - these are maintained by Waltham Forest
- Litter removal on red routes - this is also the borough's responsibility
- Network Rail track at London Overground stations - contact Network Rail
- Taxis and mini cabs - these are owned by taxi drivers and minicab offices
- Coaches
- One bus garage in Waltham Forest that is owned and managed by a bus company
- Taxi ranks on borough roads. Cars and other vehicles parked on taxi ranks can be reported to Waltham Forest
Report private hire vehicles (PHVs) parked on ranks or unattended taxis on ranks directly to us.
Dealing with severe weather
For documents relating to winter service in the boroughs, go to the Streets publications page.