Cancelling the Silvertown Tunnel would only add to Transport for London’s financial crisis, Sadiq Khan has insisted – but the London mayor has refused to reveal how much it would cost to axe the £2 billion new road. Construction work is under way on the controversial tunnel between the Royal Docks and the Greenwich Peninsula, […]
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Sadiq Khan accused of ignoring Silvertown Tunnel’s impact on air quality
Sadiq Khan has been accused of “blatantly ignoring his own contribution” to worsening air quality in parts of London by campaigners against his Silvertown Tunnel project. It comes following new analysis from City Hall that revealed 98 per cent of schools in London are in areas that exceed World Health Organisation limits for PM2.5 pollution, […]
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Lewisham Council could install extra Silvertown Tunnel pollution monitoring
Lewisham Council is considering installing more pollution monitors on streets threatened by Silvertown Tunnel traffic. The news comes as London Labour party representatives rebuked their mayor, Sadiq Khan, to call for the controversial £2 billion toll road between the Greenwich Peninsula and the Royal Docks to be scrapped. Transport for London, which is chaired by […]
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A vote for me was a vote for Silvertown Tunnel, says Sadiq Khan
Sadiq Khan’s re-election was an endorsement of the Silvertown Tunnel by Londoners, the mayor insisted yesterday after saying that the public had 10 opportunities to have their say on the controversial road scheme between Greenwich Peninsula and the Royal Docks. The mayor spoke as another London Assembly member put pressure on him to pause the […]
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I won’t cancel the Silvertown Tunnel, mayor Sadiq Khan insists
London mayor Sadiq Khan has insisted he will not cancel the Silvertown Tunnel – and accused opponents of wanting to “do nothing” about persistent queues at the Blackwall Tunnel. Work has begun on the £2 billion road crossing between Greenwich Peninsula and the Royal Docks, which the mayor says will eliminate the congestion which blights […]
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Tory mayoral candidate Shaun Bailey overturned Labour’s lead in Eltham, polling data shows
Tory mayoral candidate Shaun Bailey topped the poll on first-preferences in Eltham constituency in this month’s election, detailed voting figures have revealed. Bailey’s election campaign was much mocked on social media but he ran Labour’s Sadiq Khan far closer than expected, taking 35 per cent of first-preference votes across London, compared with 40 per cent […]
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Silvertown Tunnel pollution monitoring undecided despite work having started, Khan admits
Levels of air quality monitoring for the Silvertown Tunnel have not been decided – even though work is already well under way on the £2billion new toll road under the Thames. London mayor Sadiq Khan took four months to answer an assembly member’s question on how Transport for London will watch levels of pollution after […]
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London Labour members stage late revolt against Sadiq Khan’s Silvertown Tunnel
Labour members on both sides of the Thames have united to condemn Sadiq Khan’s plans to build the Silvertown Tunnel, with just weeks to go until the mayor stands for re-election. Constituency parties in Greenwich & Woolwich and West Ham, covering each end of the proposed road crossing, have passed motions calling on the Labour […]
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