Tour de France

As part of the Tour's three-day visit to Britain, London will welcome this major cycle event on Monday 7th July. The event will have huge numbers of people lining the Capital's streets to see some of the greatest names in cycling competing for the famous yellow jersey.

The third stage of the Tour will start in Cambridge city centre at around midday, before heading into Essex and Greater London before finally reaching Central London.

The cyclists will ride through Leamouth, Poplar, Wapping and Shadwell. Once past the Tower of London the route will take them along the Thames, towards Lower and Upper Thames Streets and Victoria Embankment, before riding past the Houses of Parliament, around St James's Park and finishing on The Mall.

It is anticipated that this event will have a massive impact on traffic flow through Central London and Canary Wharf with the following roads being closed from 10am to 6pm; Victoria Embankment, Lower and Upper Thames Street, Byward Street, Tower Hill and Limehouse Link Tunnel. The following bridges across the Thames will also be closed; Westminster Bridge, Southwark Bridge and Tower Bridge.

We expect that our AM commuter services will be able to complete our normal route in full on the morning of Monday 7^th July. Unfortunately due to the road closures along much of our normal evening route, and the likely surrounding traffic congestion, it is necessary to divert all PM services as follows:

Click the blue map icon to view the location on a map

	Lambeth Palace Road (Stop SP)  – Per timetabled time for Horseferry Road
	St. Thomas Hospital (Stop C) – Per timetabled time for Victoria Street (DTI)
	Waterloo Station, York Road (Stop V) – Per timetabled time for Embankment
	Blackfriars Road (Stop SM)  – Per timetabled time for Puddle Dock/ Queen Victoria Street
	Southwark, Southwark Bridge Road (Stop BV)  – Per timetabled time for Upper Thames Street/ Cannon Street
	London Bridge, London Bridge Station (Stop R) – Per timetabled time for Eastcheap
	Tower Bridge Police Station (Stop S) – Per timetabled time for Tower Hill
	Canada Water (by the traffic lights to the right of the station) View photo – Per timetabled time for Canary Wharf

 

Our PM commuter services will be unable to serve the following bus stops; Horseferry Road, Victoria Street, Parliament Street, Embankment, Temple, Temple Avenue, Puddle Dock (Queen Victoria Street), Upper Thames Street (Cannon Street), Eastcheap, Great Tower Street, Tower Hill and Canary Wharf.

Please click here to view a larger version of this map.

Please note the Tour de France will impact PM services only on Monday 7^th July. All AM service will complete the route as normal.