Any lingering hopes of a road river crossing being built at Thamesmead have finally been killed off – providing a boost to plans to build thousands of new homes and a Docklands Light Railway extension. The government has lifted a safeguarding order protecting land for the Thames Gateway Bridge, which was proposed by Ken Livingstone […]
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Revive Gallions Reach and Belvedere river crossings, Bexley Council demands
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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Bridge East London: Come Labour bombs and fall on Plumstead?
The road lobby’s getting itchy. Monday saw the London Chamber of Commerce publish a new design for the road bridge it’s desperate to see built between Thamesmead and Beckton. The Evening Standard obligingly spun it as a “bicycle-friendly” bridge, because it has a pedestrian and cycle lane beneath the dual carriageway taking it across the […]
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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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