Thames Gateway TramLink

15/06/2026

Make sure you get involved!

To celebrate , our friends at TrueForm are giving you the chance to WIN a VIP tour of the London Transport Museum and dinner in London.

How to enter:
1️⃣ Find one of Trueform's digital screens in Wokingham or Surrey
2️⃣ Take a photo next to the screen
3️⃣ Post it on LinkedIn and tag Trueform
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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!