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@Airhead
Very difficult to condense the discussion that's been taking place around Sands End into a few paragraphs. The area has it's issues with traffic and it seems as if it all started with Harwood Terrace, a tiny road that became a cut through for a huge amount of traffic looking to reach Wandsworth Bridge via Sands End East. The whole area became a rat run through to WBR. The street I live in was so full of traffic for 2 hours a day that we couldn't get in to it at night to park.
Now WBR is the main access road for the whole of Sands End East, with residents from H&F being allowed to use any of the roads. It has made access to the New Kings Road very easy for us. Rat running still happens in some ways but not to the same extent. A downside is the rat running is now at much higher speeds.
Of course Hammersmith Bridge is closed, Vauxhall closed for a while and Wandsworth Bridge is undergoing maintenance the worst of which is now over. It has been bad!