Bow Interchange is a busy grade-separated road junction in London, England, on the

East Cross Route East Cross Route (ECR) is a dual-carriageway road constructed in east London as part of the uncompleted Ringway 1 as part of the London Ringways plan drawn up the 1960s to create a series of high speed roads circling and radiating out from ce ...

(part of the A12 road) between Bow, Stratford, and Bromley-by-Bow at a point where the London Boroughs of

Tower Hamlets The London Borough of Tower Hamlets is a borough in London, England. Situated on the north bank of the River Thames and immediately east of the City of London, the borough spans much of the traditional East End of London and includes much of ...

and

Newham The London Borough of Newham () is a London boroughs, London borough created in 1965 by the London Government Act 1963. It covers an area previously administered by the Essex county boroughs of County Borough of West Ham, West Ham and County ...

meet. It is a triple-level junction where the East Cross Route (the A12), Bow Road (the A11 road), and Stratford High Street (the A118 road) meet. The

River Lea The River Lea ( ) is in the East of England and Greater London. It originates in Bedfordshire, in the Chiltern Hills, and flows southeast through Hertfordshire, along the Essex border and into Greater London, to meet the River Thames at Bow Cr ...

runs underneath the junction. The East Cross Route is a major road in East London which runs north to the

North Circular Road The North Circular Road (officially the A406 and sometimes known as simply the North Circular) is a ring road around Central London. It runs from Chiswick in the west to North Woolwich in the east via suburban north London, connecting var ...

and south to the

Blackwall Tunnel The Blackwall Tunnel is a pair of road tunnels underneath the River Thames in east London, England, linking the London Borough of Tower Hamlets with the Royal Borough of Greenwich, and part of the A102 road. The northern portal lies just south ...

Cycling

Cycle Superhighway 2 CS2 runs from Stratford to

Aldgate Aldgate () was a gate in the former defensive wall around the City of London. The gate gave its name to ''Aldgate High Street'', the first stretch of the A11 road, that takes that name as it passes through the ancient, extramural Portsoken ...

via the roundabout east to west. Following the deaths of two cyclists at the roundabout in late 2013 and pressure from the London Cycling Campaign, Transport for London began introducing measures to improve safety for cyclists and other road users at the junction.

Public transport

The nearest stations are Bow Church DLR station and

Bromley-by-Bow tube station Bromley-by-Bow () is a London Underground station located on the Blackwall Tunnel Northern Approach Road in the Bromley-by-Bow area of London, United Kingdom. It is below the Blackwall Tunnel Northern Approach Road. The station is on the Dist ...

References

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External links

TfL - Improvements & projects - Bow RoundaboutSABRE - Bow Interchange
Road junctions in London Transport in the London Borough of Tower Hamlets Transport in the London Borough of Newham Bow, London Bromley-by-Bow Stratford, London