Transport for LondonEast London Transit
The service will improve access to employment opportunities, leisure, retail and services for the local community, helping to regenerate areas on both sides of the river.
You'll enjoy:
- Fast, frequent and reliable buses
- Links to the Tube, DLR, rail and other bus services
- Improved timetable information
- Fully accessible and environmentally friendly vehicles with audio and visual next-stop information
- Well-lit waiting areas and modern stops with shelters
- Facilities along some of the route for other road users, such as pedestrian walkways and cycle route
Consultation
The three separate routes that will make up the ELT are:
- Barking town centre to Dagenham Dock via Barking Riverside
- Ilford to Dagenham Dock via Barking town centre
- Barking town centre to Abbey Wood and Woolwich via the proposed Thames Gateway Bridge
We've carried out consultations on the routes and you can download the consultation documents and the survey results.
Barking town centre to Dagenham Dock via Barking Riverside
Following a public consultation in May 2007, option B was chosen from the four possible routes.
This will run from Barking town centre through River Road and into Thames Road, down into Creek Road then Long Reach Road and into Barking Riverside. Read more in the press release and view option B in the Consultation document.
- ELT public consultation on route options (PDF 2MB)
- ELT public consultation report, May 2008 (PDF 936KB)
Ilford to Dagenham Dock via Barking town centre
- ELT Consultation Brochure: Ilford to Dagenham Dock (PDF 1.38MB)
- ELT Transit public consultation report, August 2006 (PDF 644KB)
Barking town centre to Abbey Wood and Woolwich via the Thames Gateway Bridge
- ELT public consultation on route options between Barking Town Centre and Gallions Reach (PDF 3.36MB)
- ELT public consultation on route options between Barking Town centre and Gallions reach, report, June 2007 (PDF 4.4MB)
Contact us
If you would like more information about the scheme email: elt@tfl.gov.uk or write to ELT at:
Transport for London
Freepost NAT 22450
London SW1 0BR
