The London Assembly has called on Sadiq Khan and Transport for London to provide data on what would happen if a future mayor dropped tolls on the Silvertown Tunnel. Drivers will be charged to use the new tunnel when it opens in 2025, along with the Blackwall Tunnel, with the money paying back the £2 […]
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Silvertown Tunnel construction hits milestone as campaigners plan health conference
The first part of the tunnelling apparatus for the Silvertown Tunnel has been lowered into place as work continues on Sadiq Khan’s £2 billion road link between the Royal Docks and Greenwich Peninsula. Riverlinx, the contractor building the four-lane tunnel for Transport for London, used two cranes to manoeuvre the “tunnel eye” into position in […]
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Labour and Tory candidates join Greens to condemn Silvertown Tunnel
Conservative and Labour council candidates have joined the Greens in criticising the Silvertown Tunnel – despite it being officially supported by their own parties at City Hall. The £2 billion crossing, instigated by Boris Johnson and carried forward by Sadiq Khan, was lambasted by all candidates at a hustings for the Greenwich Council elections held […]
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Shambles as Greenwich Council finally calls for Silvertown Tunnel to be halted
Greenwich Council finally called on Sadiq Khan to pause work on the Silvertown Tunnel last night – weeks before tunnelling is due to start and nine years after the town hall launched a campaign to see the river crossing built. The vote took place amid shambolic scenes with Labour and Conservative councillors yelling at each […]
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Greenwich Council finally set to discuss Silvertown Tunnel – nine years late
Greenwich councillors are poised to overturn their town hall’s support for the Silvertown Tunnel – nine years after launching a campaign to get the road crossing built, and weeks before tunnelling work is due to begin. A motion to be put before the council next week calls on London mayor Sadiq Khan to pause work […]
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‘I don’t live in never-never land’: Sadiq Khan’s jibe at Silvertown Tunnel critics
London’s Labour mayor Sadiq Khan has accused opponents of the Silvertown Tunnel of “living in never-never land” – days after one of his senior party colleagues in the capital branded the project “madness”. Khan made the jibe in an interview about his planned expansion of the ultra-low emission zone to cover most of the capital, […]
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Newham’s mayor condemns Silvertown Tunnel ‘madness’ while Greenwich leader stays silent
Newham’s elected mayor condemned Sadiq Khan’s Silvertown Tunnel at a council meeting last night – just four nights after her counterpart in Greenwich refused to offer an opinion on the controversial project. Rokhsana Fiaz spoke out as the borough’s councillors unanimously passed an emergency motion calling for the £2 billion new road, which will run […]
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Stop building schools in air pollution hotspots, London Assembly told
New schools and affordable housing targeted at young families should not be built in areas of London that are “known pollution hotspots”, the London Assembly has been told. Speaking at a meeting of the assembly’s environment committee on Tuesday, Imperial College London’s Dr Ian Mudway, an expert on air quality, warned that the long-term health […]
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