A102(M) East Cross Route

This article is about The East Cross Route, now A12.
For The Blackwall Tunnel Southern Approach, see A102(M) Blackwall Tunnel Southern Approach.

For detailed information about this topic, see Pathetic Motorways

The A12 (former A102(M) East Cross Route

Both sections of A102(M) were intended to form parts of the eastern side of Ringway 1 in London, though in actuality they formed almost all that was ever built. Despite some maps showing the full route from Hackney Wick to Kidbrooke as motorway, including the river crossing itself, neither the tunnels themselves nor the northern approach road were ever part of the motorway. They two sections were linked by a section of primary A102, built to a similar standard but which has footpaths, bus stops and local road accesses along its length.

The East Cross Route ran from Hackney Wick (where it would have met the M11 from Woodford and Central London and the North Cross Route from Camden) to the junction with the A11 near Bow, where the plain vanilla A102 (now A12) formed the Blackwall Tunnel Northern Approach. It was downgraded when handed over to TfL, and has since been renumbered A12, when the Eastway to the north opened.

Links

Roads.org.uk

• Ringway 1: East Cross Route

Pathetic Motorways

• A102(M) East Cross Route
• Ringways for Beginners: Ringway 1