Streatham Common North (A214) Bus Priority

We’re working to speed up bus journeys on Streatham Common North.

Lambeth has received funding from TfL’s Bus Priority programme to improve bus journey times on Streatham Common North (A214) making buses faster and more reliable. We’re engaging with the community to better understand how to improve bus journeys and inform our plans for future improvements.

The A214 corridor, consisting of Streatham Common North, Crown Lane, Crown Dale and Central Hill, has been identified as a priority because data shows that journey times average as low as 4.91mph. The Mayor’s London Bus Action Plan aims for between 10mph and 13mph on average.

On bus priority corridors we aim to:

• Improve bus journey times, for quicker and more reliable journeys
• Reduce traffic and improve air quality, with more people choosing to travel by bus, walk or cycle. Our aim is for 85% of journeys to be sustainable borough-wide
• Make streets safer and healthier, with clearer road layouts that are safer for people walking, cycling and using public transport
• Make it easier to access local shops, services and jobs through faster travel, including neighbourhoods that other forms of public transport don’t reach

The adoption of our Climate Action Plan in 2022, and our Kerbside Strategy and Road Danger Reduction Strategy in 2023, we want to explore a range of Bus Priority interventions for Streatham Common North to make our neighbourhoods fit for the future. The proposals support our wider aims for Lambeth’s transport network, particularly:

• Enabling 25% of kerbside space to be allocated to more sustainable uses
• Reduce car dependency and decrease motor traffic by 27% in the borough by 2030
• Support the delivery of TfL’s Healthy Streets Approach

Main Roads are defined in Lambeth’s Road Danger Reduction Strategy as key corridors where motor traffic levels are the highest, and where most collisions happen. Demand for space on these streets is high, with tens of thousands of people walking, cycling, driving or using public transport. Carriageway and kerbside space therefore need to be carefully managed, supporting a variety of journeys. Bus Priority interventions aim to create main roads with improved bus journey times, and which are safe, accessible and healthy.

Design Engagement (21 September – 18 October)

As part of our Design Engagement phase, we want to hear from you about the proposed designs. We want to know how this will impact your bus journeys and other journeys such as walking, wheeling and cycling, how they could be improved, and what other improvements you would like to see.

This feedback will be used together with other data such as bus speeds, parking pressure and traffic counts to finalise designs for the corridor. This will be published alongside a decision report for the scheme.

To support the Design Engagement Survey, we have also produced a design rationale page and a data overview page. You will also be able to find a Q&A document here, answering some of the more frequently asked questions.