Editing London Borough of Tower Hamlets (section)

=== Road ===
As with most of the transport network in Tower Hamlets, several roads radiate across the Borough from the City of London.<ref name=":0">{{Cite web|url=https://www.openstreetmap.org/relation/51805|title=London Borough of Tower Hamlets|website=[[OpenStreetMap]]|date=25 October 2023 }}</ref> East–west routes include:

* the [[A11 road (England)|A11]], which runs from [[Aldgate]] to the A12 near [[Stratford, London|Stratford]], passing through [[Whitechapel]], [[Mile End]], and [[Bow, London|Bow]].
* the [[A13 road (England)|A13]] (''[[Commercial Road]]/[[East India Dock Road]]''), which runs from Aldgate to [[Poplar, London|Poplar]]. East of Poplar, the route continues towards [[Barking, London|Barking]], [[Tilbury]], and [[Southend-on-Sea|Southend]].
* the A1203 (''[[The Highway (London)|The Highway]]''), which runs from [[Tower Hill]], through [[Wapping]], to [[Limehouse]] and [[Canary Wharf]].

There are several north–south routes in the Borough,<ref name=":0" /> including:

* the [[A12 road (England)|A12]], which begins at the A13 in Poplar and runs along the eastern edge of the Borough. The route carries traffic towards the [[M11 motorway|M11]] (for [[London Stansted Airport|Stansted Airport]] {{Rint|air}}), [[Romford]], and destinations in [[Essex]], including [[Chelmsford]] and [[Harwich International Port]]. The route ultimately runs to [[Lowestoft]] in [[Suffolk]].
* the London Inner Ring Road from Old Street to Tower Bridge.

There are three [[River Thames]] road crossings in the Borough.<ref name=":0" /> From west-east, these are:

* [[Tower Bridge]] (Tower Hill to [[Southwark]] and [[Bermondsey]])
* [[Rotherhithe Tunnel]] (the A13 at Limehouse to [[Canada Water]])
* [[Blackwall Tunnel]] (the A12 and A13 at Poplar to [[Greenwich]])