Silvertown Tunnel

STOP DIGGING

New report from:

• Transport Action Network 
• Stop the Silvertown Tunnel Coalition 
• Speak out Woolwich 
• Extinction Rebellion Greenwich

A new report: The Silvertown Tunnel is in a hole, so STOP DIGGING, calls for the £1.2 billion Silvertown Tunnel project to be cancelled. It claims it is incompatible with the Greater London Authority’s vision to be carbon neutral by 2030.

The report shows that the tunnel project would be likely to increase, rather than decrease, greenhouse gas emissions, and would at best redistribute lethal air pollution rather than cutting it. It also questions whether in a post Covid world there will be a need for it if longer term traffic levels do not rise as predicted.

Greenwich Momentum actively supports the campaign against the Silvertown Tunnel.

Report
https://transportactionnetwork.org.uk/wp-content/uploads/2020/06/Stop-Digging-Report.pdf

Transport Action Network blog post
https://transportactionnetwork.org.uk/2020/06/22/new-report-urges-silvertown-tunnel-rethink/

Article in the Ecologist
https://theecologist.org/2020/jun/22/silvertown-tunnel-stop-digging