On Sep 16, 3:25*am, "John Rowland"
wrote:
wrote:

Went through there Sunday night on the bus at about 11pm and traffic
was moving pretty freely along the new routes shown on the link above.
However, this morning the traffic reports said that traffic was a
nightmare and the A11 was queuing back to Bow Road and the A13 back to
Limehouse. I wonder if this will get any better as drivers get used to
the layout or whether the powers that be have created a monster. I can
understand the benefits of removing the Shoreditch one way system as
through routes there are now more direct but not many routes are
shortened in the case of Aldgate. In fact, by my understanding, if
you're coming from Tower Hill to the A13 you now have to go all the
way past Aldgate bus station!

But not if you're going from Tower Hill to the A11?

You can turn right from Mansell Street into Whitechapel High Street
just like before. You don't need to go past Aldgate bus station to
get from Tower Hill to either the A11 Whitechapel Road or the A13
Commercial Road.

The southbound ring road is now shorter - instead of going south along
Commercial Street, then going half way round the gyratory to get inro
Leman Street, you now go straight across Whitechapel High Street into
a new section of Leman Street (which more or less follows the line of
the former Colchester Street).

Anyway, have they closed Alie Street?

Alie Street remains open as before, though it was closed temporarily
last week for utility works.