So far, Greenwich Council is up to 554 pledges on its campaign to bring more traffic jams and pollution to local streets with a third Blackwall Tunnel.

Greenwich Time, 18 December

The figure was released last week at a council meeting, which included 260 paper responses to its Bridge the Gap campaign, leaving 244 online sign-ups.

The council had been collecting signatures from shoppers in the centre of Woolwich in the run-up to Christmas – indeed, Greenwich Time showed regeneration cabinet member Denise Hyland (the woman who blamed the delays to Greenwich Foot Tunnel on non-existent “hidden structures”) outside Tesco. Wonder why she hasn’t taken her campaign to Greenwich itself yet?

In last week’s meeting, Hyland also branded those who hijacked the council’s attempt to spread its campaign across Twitter as “juvenile individuals”. The quality’s dreadful, but you can hear her talk about it here: yahoo.com. We need all the help we can get against the well-funded Greenwich and Newham council PR machines.

This is going to be a big task – but if we can work together, we can stop this crazy idea. Please sign, wherever you are. If you don’t like it, well, your money’s paying for another petition…

11 replies on “Enough is enough – sign up, say no to Silvertown Tunnel”

  2. Good. I’ve signed (I tried to last night but there seemed to be a fault). But maybe you can persuade Mr Kite to update his blog from July. Doesn’t quite give the feeling of local activism.

  3. Another tunnel on the peninsular will only increase the temptation to plough a new motorway through ancient Oxleas Wood. Remember the Thames Gateway threat in the 1990s? It’s back with this.

  5. “Another tunnel on the peninsular will only increase the temptation to plough a new motorway through ancient Oxleas Wood. Remember the Thames Gateway threat in the 1990s? It’s back with this.”

    Couldn’t agree more, Ric.

  6. Great idea to set up a counter-petition. It’s disturbing that the Greenwich Time is basically a propaganda piece for this pollution-filled scheme. More roads = more traffic, and where’s it going to go once it gets across the River? Asthma rates amongst children are too high at the moment already, it’s already dangerous for pedestrians and cyclists and the traffic’s pretty bad, crawling through Greenwich town centre or the A2, so imagine if another Blackwall Tunnel gets built!
    Funny they can afford this scheme yet Lewisham A & E is being sacrificed for Queen Elizabeth hospital’s debts. How about we save the millions on this new tunnel and pay it into the hospital – I’m sure most people in Greenwich and Lewisham would prefer that.
    Thanks for making people aware of this issue.

  7. Yes, that’s what we need – a campaign like the Oxleas and Danson Park ones that opposed the previous crossing proposals. Any artistic people out there able to create a ‘say no to the Silvertown Tunnel poster’?

  8. I can help with webby/digital designy stuff to an extent…
    I’m no great artist but I’m OK. 🙂

  9. Have posted details of the petition against the Silvertown tunnel on the forum for GMV residents, so hopefully they will let their voices be heard if they haven’t done so already. Also, if people haven’t done so, I would also suggest getting their views across to the three local councillors – Mary Mills, Dick Quibell and Miranda Williams. Emails are basically “first name”.”last name”@greenwich.gov.uk

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