Transport for London has revealed plans for the cross-river bus network that will use the Silvertown Tunnel – but just two services are planned and a promised route to Kidbrooke Village and Eltham does not appear. At present just one route uses the Blackwall Tunnel, the single-deck 108 service which links Stratford International station and […]
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You can’t be trusted to decide on Silvertown Tunnel designs, Greenwich councillors told
Greenwich councillors have been told they cannot be trusted to approve the designs for the Silvertown Tunnel’s entrance building because so many of them are opposed to Sadiq Khan’s road project. Detailed designs for the building were withdrawn from the borough’s main planning committee at the last minute, with planning chair Gary Dillon reading a […]
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Stop and rethink Silvertown Tunnel, ‘frustrated’ Greenwich Council leader tells Khan
Updated story: Greenwich Council’s leader has challenged Sadiq Khan to halt work on the Silvertown Tunnel and reassess his plans for the crossing – a decade after his predecessors first campaigned for the new road to be built. Anthony Okereke spoke out in a message to a meeting of the Stop the Silvertown Tunnel Coalition […]
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Greenwich Council leader to address Silvertown Tunnel meeting as campaigners plot next move
Greenwich Council leader Anthony Okereke is to address Silvertown Tunnel activists on Sunday as they meet to discuss what to do now tunnelling work has started. Okereke will join the Green Party London Assembly member Sian Berry and Anna Moore, a respiratory health expert, at the public event at Greenwich Yacht Club. Tunnelling began a […]
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Tunnelling work finally begins on Sadiq Khan’s £2bn Silvertown Tunnel
Tunnelling work on the £2 billion Silvertown Tunnel has begun, a decade after Boris Johnson first proposed the crossing and four years after it was given the go-ahead by the government. Jill, the 82 metre-long tunnel boring machine being used to dig the crossing has been launched, Transport for London confirmed today, putting it on […]
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‘Bonkers’ Tower Hamlets Council refuses to oppose Silvertown Tunnel
Tower Hamlets Council refused to back opponents of the Silvertown Tunnel last night – with a senior councillor insisting that the new road would be good for the east London borough. Councillors were due to discuss the controversial road scheme at a meeting last night after a Green councillor, Nathalie Bienfait, put forward a motion […]
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New Greenwich Council leader backs away from plan to halt Silvertown Tunnel
Greenwich Council’s new leader has backed away from his pledge to try to get the Silvertown Tunnel halted, seven weeks after he told Labour councillors that he would work with his counterpart in Newham on the issue. Anthony Okereke was elected leader on the promise that he would meet Rokhsana Fiaz, the elected mayor of […]
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Jill the tunnelling machine gets ready as Silvertown Tunnel works ramp up
Contractors have begun to lower into place the machine that will build the Silvertown Tunnel, marking a new milestone for mayor Sadiq Khan’s controversial road project. Riverlinx, the company that is building and will operate the new tunnel for Transport for London, which the mayor chairs, has lowered the first parts of the tunnelling machine […]
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