Bexley Council has backed a call to bring forward new Thames road crossings at Gallions Reach and Belvedere, four years after the plans were dropped by London’s Labour mayor Sadiq Khan. A road crossing at Gallions Reach, between Thamesmead and Beckton, has been talked about in one form or another for decades; and Khan’s Conservative […]
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Unlucky 13: TfL’s smokescreen obscures river crossings debate
You might have noticed TfL started a new consultation into its planned road river crossings at Gallions Reach and Belvedere a few days ago. You didn’t? Well, what you may have seen is a story about TfL planning 13 new crossings across the Thames. The trouble is – it’s nonsense. Most of the crossings have […]
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Silvertown Tunnel: The perils of the path of least resistance
As with most propaganda, it’s not what they tell you that matters – it’s what they’re not telling you. So it’s striking that Greenwich Council’s weekly Pravda, Greenwich Time, has neglected to tell readers about leader Denise Hyland’s trip to Westminster last month to lobby MPs for the Silvertown Tunnel. Think the Bridge The Gap […]
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River crossings: Greenwich Council backs Woolwich Ferry closure
Greenwich Council is backing the eventual closure of the Woolwich Ferry in favour of a road bridge at Gallions Reach, according to its response to Transport for London’s consultation into Thames river crossings. It’s also calling for tolls to be introduced at the Blackwall Tunnel before any other road crossings are built, according to the […]
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Silvertown Tunnel will cause ‘pressure’, Boris Johnson admits
London mayor Boris Johnson has admitted his proposals for the Silvertown Tunnel will cause “much more pressure and much more traffic” on local roads – despite his allies at Greenwich Council claiming the opposite. Johnson’s admission also gives campaigners against a new Ikea in Greenwich a new line of argument while the mayor considers whether […]
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Greenwich Council: ‘We’ll build our own river crossing’
Greenwich Council is demanding the power to build a new road bridge at Thamesmead, according to its response to Transport for London’s consultation into river crossings. As expected, the council is “strongly supporting” the controversial Silvertown Tunnel, which would branch off the A102 just south of the Blackwall Tunnel, as favoured by mayor Boris Johnson […]
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