Putney Bridge
Daily and annual traffic on Putney Bridge from 1986 to 2026, with vehicle-type breakdowns from DfT, TfL and Vivacity AI cameras, and TfL bus speeds across the junction. Use the controls in each chart to switch sources, baseline year, and view (absolute or index).
Common questions
- How busy is Putney Bridge?
- Daily two-way motor traffic across Putney Bridge has run in the tens of thousands of vehicles for decades. See the combined chart for the year-by-year totals from 1986.
- Is traffic on Putney Bridge increasing or decreasing?
- Long-run motor traffic on Putney Bridge has been broadly flat or slightly declining since the 1990s, with a sharp dip in 2020 and a partial recovery since.
- What does Vivacity data show that the older sources don't?
- Daily counts by direction and vehicle class from 2023 onwards, where DfT only gives annual averages and TfL only gives biennial single-day counts. The 28-day rolling chart on this page is built from the Vivacity feed.
- Are buses across Putney Bridge getting faster or slower?
- Average speeds on the nine TfL bus routes that cross Putney Bridge are tracked on this dashboard. The bus-speeds chart shows the long-run trend for each route.
- What is "Claim 2"?
- The Claim 2 dataset is the hourly-traffic-pattern breakdown referenced in legal proceedings over Putney High Street air quality. It is presented here as the underlying counts so the claim is auditable against source data.