Wandsworth Travel Choices

The council's Travel Choices campaign is making Wandsworth a better connected place with more transport options.

Our plans include major upgrades to existing transport infrastructure and introducing new ways to get around like a cycle hire scheme and a Tube extension.

These pages introduce our key proposals and ask local people for their views.

Leader of Wandsworth Council Ravi Govindia explains more:

"Improving choice is at the heart of our transport plans. We want Wandsworth residents to have every possible transport option within easy reach of their home.

"By giving people more convenient and practical ways of completing their journeys we will spread the load wider and ease the congestion on our roads, trains, buses and tubes.

"It's not just about creating new travel choices. We're also focussed on upgrading existing infrastructure like railway stations and roads to make sure these important services improve and develop.

"Transport affects everyone in Wandsworth. We want more local people to know about our plans and to add their voices to our push for better transport."

Key objectives

• Bring the Barclays Cycle Hire Scheme to Wandsworth
• Extend the Northern Line into Nine Elms, east Battersea
• Expand car clubs
• Secure longer, higher capacity trains on local rail services
• Airtrack Lite - a new direct rail service to Heathrow
• A new direct rail service from Clapham Junction to north London
• Open up more of the riverbank to the public
• Expand riverbus services
• Upgrade local railway stations
• Increase capacity on the Northern Line and the Wimbledon Branch of the District Line
• Reconfigure key road junctions to improve traffic flow