Galllows Corner Flyover to close for three months !!

TfL have announced that the Gallows Corner Flyover will shut for three months from 28th May for repair works to be carried out.

Additional works to repair the parapets was identified in April last year and the necessary off-site construction of the support structures is now complete. However, it will take at least three months, working 7 days a week, to install the new parapets.

During the period of works the flyover will be fully closed with traffic diverted around Gallows Corner Roundabout. There will be partial lane closures on the roundabout and its approach during off-peak periods and there will be inevitable delays to motorists. It will also affect certain bus routes, including, the 174, 496 and 498.

The Gallows Corner two-lane flyover was erected as a temporary structure in the Sixties, for an intended 12 to 15 year period. Since then, the flyover has been maintained by a succession of organisations since its construction, comprising of Havering Borough Council, the Department for Transport, the Highways Agency and, since 2000, Transport for London (TfL).

Cllr Mann, who met TfL representatives at the flyover last year to discuss the issue said “The delays over this repair work have been a nightmare for local residents and commuters to and from London, most of this delay was unnecessary if a proper inspection had taken place prior to the works being started last year”, lets hope that once this work is completed, the flyover will operate for many years without any trouble”.