Silvertown Tunnel campaign needs your support

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.

This guy doesn't make any sense.

2016:

He withdrew Boris Johnson’s objection to the airport buying public land it needs to expand. Its £300 million plan, featuring a bigger terminal and new aircraft taxi lane, would allow a 40 per cent increase in flights.

https://www.standard.co.uk/news/transport/sadiq-khan-s-help-for-london-city-airport-expansion-breaks-green-pledge-a3245396.html

2022:

London mayor Sadiq Khan has slammed the proposed expansion of London City airport as the 10-week public consultation on the ramp up of services ends on Friday.

https://www.cityam.com/sadiq-khan-slams-london-city-expansion-as-public-consultation-nears-end/

It must be tough being a politician: you know you need to cut emissions, but you also want a growing economy. The thing is, if you fuck about making weak decisions for another couple of decades then we're all fucked. You simply can't be expanding airports and building urban motorways any more. Madness.

Car drivers could be charged up to £4 to use the Blackwall tunnel or Silvertown tunnel, according to official documents.

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Both tunnels have to be tolled to prevent traffic diverting from one to the other.

https://www.standard.co.uk/news/transport/car-drivers-4-pound-toll-blackwall-tunnel-silvertown-tfl-sadiq-khan-b1108833.html

Here are the results of a public consultation regarding the Silvertown tunnel and a shuttle service

https://ehq-production-europe.s3.eu-west-1.amazonaws.com/e1c818fc19f72c206fa72119e671ec85e62d4b83/original/1720596890/d4a8c799164b1cd7fc2b87592980bc3c_Consultation-report.pdf?X-Amz-Algorithm=AWS4-HMAC-SHA256&X-Amz-Credential=AKIA4KKNQAKICO37GBEP%2F20240710%2Feu-west-1%2Fs3%2Faws4_request&X-Amz-Date=20240710T145205Z&X-Amz-Expires=300&X-Amz-SignedHeaders=host&X-Amz-Signature=1c9edaa172044fd8d0047b118190433951b597d2c0414a9e8cbf85427d9ec2e6

Linky no worky

I have downloaded it - i tested that link before posting as well. blooming computers.....

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• Silvertown_Consultation-report.pdf

They’re consulting on the toll fees now. Free in the evening and £1.50 off peak. It’s cheaper than a bus ticket. Astonishingly cheap to encourage mass motoring and extra pollution in East London.

Reeves may announce she is cancelling this project next week because of the £20 billion hole in the government finances. Maybe.

How would that work? It's almost done.

Its not Silvertown: https://www.kentonline.co.uk/dartford/news/lower-thames-crossing-project-could-be-delayed-again-310443/

Don't get your hopes up (for the Lower Thames Crossing or for Stonehenge). History shows that projects like this always stay on the agenda, they still get pursued, and they will be done at some point. This is not an anti-road building government. The whole nonsense about 'growth' means that they buy into the primitive orthodoxy that more traffic, primarily motor traffic, means more economic activity, when all it means is more disorganisation and more need to travel.

Yes sorry, my bad. Should pay attention and read further before getting my hopes up!

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