Thames Gateway TramLink

08/06/2026

Join us for this special Better Transport Week webinar where we showcase interesting projects from Campaign for Better Transport partners!

08/06/2026

Explore innovative transport solutions at the Better Transport Conference 2026, supported by AtkinsRéalis, on Friday 19 June in London.

05/06/2026

We need a link just like this - between grays and ebbsfleet

Images released as part of TfL's final consultation show how the proposed Beckton Riverside and Thamesmead stations could look when the long-awaited DLR extension opens in the early 2030s.

22/05/2026

With public transport options this doesn’t need to be a huge deal. However, while no alternatives exist this is a tax on local motorists.

Infrastructure should connect regions and expand opportunity. Increasingly, east of London, it feels designed to invoice people for both.

12/05/2026

Helsinki’s new Kruunuvuori (Kruunuvuorensilta) bridge — 1,191 m long, car-free and built for pedestrians, cyclists and a future tram — opened April 18, 2026 with a 200‑year design life; it cuts a key route from ~11 km to ~5.5 km, saw 50,000+ visitors on opening weekend, and is part of the €326m Crown Bridges light-rail project (tram service due 2027). The project reduced embodied emissions via low‑emission materials and renewables but still has an estimated 129,000 tCO2e footprint over 50 years, highlighting why durability and modal shift matter for net climate benefit.
If the UK wants a clear target: build resilient, car‑free multimodal links that prioritise walking, cycling and high-capacity light rail; design for multi‑century lifespan to amortise embodied carbon; and pair projects with Vision Zero street redesign, lower local speed limits and strong public‑transport integration to deliver safer, greener urban growth.

Read more about the project here

Helsinki’s new 1,191-meter bridge bans cars to favor trams and bikes. Discover the 200-year giant changing the face of urban travel.

09/05/2026

Just 10km across the Thames — yet for many in Thurrock and Grays, reaching Ebbsfleet International by public transport can take over 90 minutes. That is not a distance problem. It is a connectivity failure.

Bringing Ebbsfleet closer to Essex would unlock major opportunities for local people:
• Faster access to high-speed rail and national connections
• Better access to jobs across North Kent and beyond
• Improved links to healthcare, education and business
• Reduced pressure on the Dartford Crossing and wider road network
• Stronger economic ties between Thurrock and Kent

With over 400,000 residents affected across Thurrock, Dartford and Gravesham — and thousands of new homes planned around Ebbsfleet — the demand already exists. The infrastructure thinking has not caught up.

Grays and Thurrock should not be functionally isolated from one of the South East’s most important transport hubs.

The question is no longer “why would we connect these areas better?”
It is “why hasn’t it happened already?”

07/05/2026

grays with its rich history of its river side setting and surrounding industry.

TGT believe a link between Grays and Ebbsfleet will be essential in the coming years, catering for growth and existing hidden demand due to current poor public transport offerings across the river.

This essential connection would bring HS1 within a 10min connection, much better than the existing trip into London and back out via rail!

30/04/2026

Transport investment in the Thames Gateway needs a reset.

There is clear momentum around buses and active travel, and that progress matters. But incremental improvements alone will not match the scale of change coming to this region.

Housing growth across the Thames Gateway is accelerating. Job creation ambitions are significant. Yet the transport response still leans heavily on roads as the default solution. That approach is unlikely to unlock the full economic potential of the area, and risks reinforcing existing constraints rather than solving them.

Rail and high-capacity public transport move people more efficiently, more sustainably, and at the scale required for long-term growth. If we are serious about productivity, access to opportunity, and net zero commitments, these modes cannot remain secondary considerations.

The real challenge is not whether smaller interventions have value. It is whether they are being matched with the kind of strategic, cross-river and cross-region thinking needed to genuinely shift travel patterns and support growth.

There is an opportunity here to be bolder:
- Prioritise high-capacity, rail-led connectivity across the Thames Gateway
- Design schemes around unlocking suppressed demand, not just accommodating existing flows
- Align transport investment directly with housing and employment growth corridors

This region does not lack ambition. The question is whether transport planning will rise to meet it.

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24/04/2026

Hidden demand for a Kent–Essex crossing isn’t theoretical — it’s already there, just forced into cars.

• Thousands already commute between Kent and Essex with no robust public transport option
• Ebbsfleet Garden City is scaling fast — but transport provision isn’t keeping pace
• Dartford Crossing is already overloaded — more roads won’t solve induced demand
• No public transport crossing = two disconnected economies either side of the Thames
• Delay 10 years and you lock in car dependency, congestion, and poorer air quality for a generation

KenEx isn’t “nice to have” — it’s basic infrastructure for growth!

08/04/2026

How wonderful would the return of Tilbury / Gravesend ferry be… and even better it would be powered by electricity!

Get behind this, let your cllr & MPs know!!