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  • She may want to rebrand herself, but she is responsible for the Silvertown Tunnel. Weak politicians just go along with what the road-building lobby proposes. Among other things, she signed off this load of tripe:

    https://b260ea75-d3b3-42a4-aec2-f3fe04b727b9.filesusr.com/ugd/04c9c0_93765d59e3694967ae20f8e6652e3c1f.pdf

    It will become clear what bullshit this whole letter is in a few years from now when, as ever, motor traffic in the area will have increased massively, the cost of the tolls will have been passed on to customers, and the next road-building proposals will be along to build our way out of congestion yet again.

    Most politicians don't understand the first thing about transport. It's why there's long been such a heavy turnover of Transport Secretaries, and there are no competent specialists in sight. She certainly isn't one, so I'd suggest not to believe the hype.

  • Wow, that letter says exactly the opposite of any traffic modelling done on the project.

    (I live round the corner from it, but for anyone who isn’t aware I’ve attached a screengrab from TFL’s own study)

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