After the media launch of its Bridge The Gap campaign was hijacked two weeks ago, I’d been wondering how Greenwich Council would try to breathe new life into its campaign to see a third Blackwall Tunnel built. Here’s how it did it – it called up its mates. You know when the council’s in trouble […]
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Greenwich Council’s Bridge The Gap campaign runs aground
So, you’re the PR boss of a London borough, earning £125,000 a year. You’ve cooked up a campaign to get a new road tunnel built which is going to lead to even more traffic piling into your already-saturated borough. It’s a controversial one. Your social media launch had to be pulled, so now you’re now […]
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Enough is enough – sign up, say no to Silvertown Tunnel
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. 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 […]
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Greenwich Council tries to hijack Silvertown tunnel consultation
Greenwich Council tried to hijack the consultation into building a third Blackwall Tunnel yesterday – but ended up having to start again after its Twitter feed started spouting spoof messages. The council has launched a “bridge the gap” campaign to encourage residents to sign TfL’s consultations into building river crossings on the Greenwich Peninsula and […]
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Consultation time: Tell Boris where to stick his Silvertown Tunnel
A little late with this, but Transport for London has launched its consultation into plans to build a tunnel between the Greenwich Peninsula and Silvertown – in effect, a third Blackwall Tunnel. I’ve already outlined why this is a barmy, dangerous idea – and judging by the poll on last month’s post, most of you […]
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