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The solution was building a walking/cycling bridge but the Mayor scrapped it. He's done a lot of good, but this tunnel is a fucking mess.
The bridge will happen eventually, as it's a good idea, but it's one of those projects for which a number of opportunities have already been missed, and more undoubtedly will. You know this, but for anyone who doesn't, it was actually a Sustrans idea originally, ahead of the Olympics, which if they had proposed it as a standalone project I think would have got the nod, although obviously there's no telling (and it has to be said that there wasn't a good design around yet).
Livingstone at least had a limited understanding of public transport, but Khan doesn't seem to understand transport at all. Those road-building projects all come from Johnson's time, and it's this annoying thing that once something is in the system, in a plan or a report somewhere, it's hard or impossible to get it out of there again.
Oliver Schick-
The whole project is a good long-range warning of what will happen if Labour win a general election. Environmental and social commitments dropped in favour of big oil. Silvertown tunnel is an iconic example of saying one thing and doing another. Sadiq is overseeing the largest road building carbon bomb project in the country and at the same time puts out a book called 'Breathe: tackling the climate emergency'. You couldn't make it up.
Evell
It'll be every ten minutes or so, and only have space for half a dozen bikes. Who wants to ride when you might have to wait 20 minutes on a round-trip, even if you don't have to wait for multiple buses because it's busy? And over time the frequency will drop, there'll be outages, and it'll get so shit that nobody ever uses it - look at the bike service on QE2...
The solution was building a walking/cycling bridge but the Mayor scrapped it. He's done a lot of good, but this tunnel is a fucking mess.