Woolwich bridge?

HappyUser

Hi is there a bridge in Woolwich to the North and A13?
Google maps has a line but it's not clear.
Thanks

tower

HappyUser wrote: »

Hi is there a bridge in Woolwich to the North and A13?
Google maps has a line but it's not clear.
Thanks

The Answer is No, maybe it’s showing the Woolwich ferry?

MysteryMe

Is it the Blackwall tunnel?

lewishardwick

It'll be the Woolwich Ferry.

TooManyPoints

There have been plans for a bridge over the Thames just to the east of Woolwich for more than 30 years. It is (or perhaps, "was" would be better) planned to stretch from Beckton to Abbey Wood. The last time I looked (probably more than ten years ago) the land on the north side at Beckton was still derelict and undeveloped. I have a London A-Z atlas dated about 1980 which shows the proposed bridge in dotted lines.

AdrianC

https://goo.gl/maps/Q13gJ5LeAyB2
I see what you mean about the dotted line - but whatever it is, it isn't real.



There's two crossings. There's the ferry (which takes vehicles), and there's the foot tunnel.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Woolwich_foot_tunnel

stator

Are you seeing the woolwich foot tunnel?


You can see things much more clearly on OpenStreetMap

https://www.openstreetmap.org/#map=17/51.49710/0.06776

Nasqueron

Or look at google street view, you can "walk" along the road and see there is no bridge

jkwer521

Short answer is that no, there is no bridge.

The Woolwich Ferry (free car ferry) is the curved dotted line which goes from one pier to the other (soon to be closed for a few months for the ferries to be replaced).

The single unbroken grey line running approximately in line with the ferry is the foot tunnel.

The two parallel grey dotted lines a little further east (and the teal line which is sometimes visible) are for the DLR (train) - although neither are actually not quite in the right place, they just represent the route for the purposes of the public transit directions.