Silvertown Tunnel, built on a flood plain protected by an aging flood defence, as tidal levels gradually rise.
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Great thread. But one key factor here is journalists who fail to report when politicians pretend to take climate action, but fail to do so. In the recent election, not one mainstream outlet called 'climate activist' Mr Khan out on his failures on climate policy. Natalie Hanman

OK now cancel the Silvertown Tunnel

This isn't 'global leadership on climate action'. Particularly when you've:
🛑Built the Silvertown Road Tunnel
🛑Enabled expansion of City Airport
🛑Abandoned pay-per-mile road charging.
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Khan isn't in the least anti-car. The opposite, in fact. His biggest project, by far, is a £2.2bn road tunnel. He has ruled out pay-per-mile road charging. The percentage of TfL's income paid by drivers vs fare payers is set to decrease, not increase. He just has good PR people.

Glad to see Mayor of London, Sadiq Khan is going to have to sort out his own mess when the Silvertown Tunnel opens.

Stop Silvertown Tunnel Traffic and Pollution Natalie Hanman Katharine Viner Increasing carbon emissions at this moment of time is criminal. There is no other word I can use.

London isn't leading on climate. Mayor Khan's:
🛑City Airport Expansion
🛑Silvertown Tunnel
🛑Abandoning pay-per-mile

Mean that he has zero chance of hitting his own net zero target - and London's emissions will likely increase over his 3 terms. Natalie Hanman Katharine Viner

Meanwhile they've spent near zero time analysing Mr Khan's terrible decision to waste £2bn on a massive new road that TfL's own workings show will undermine all his climate and air pollution policies.

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Mixed feelings, definitely didn’t want the Conservatives to win, Sadiq Khan Silvertown tunnel is an environmental disaster

Khan isn't in the least anti-car. The opposite, in fact. His biggest project, by far, is a £2.2bn road tunnel. He has ruled out pay-per-mile road charging. The percentage of TfL's income paid by drivers vs fare payers is set to decrease, not increase. He just has good PR people.

Gyll King Post Skip Diplomacy His legacy will be the Silvertown Tunnel, essentially a motorway through one of the poorest and already most polluted boroughs in London. Wild he’s portrayed as a Green mayor.

Peter Jukes Sadiq Khan Byline Times So a judgment call; is pretending to reduce CO2 emissions while in fact making decisions that increase them, in a climate crisis, worse or better than Ms Hall's grotesque racism?

Peter Jukes Sadiq Khan Byline Times And he just refuses to tell the truth about his own decisions: x.com/silvertowntn/s…

Jo Maugham Sadiq Khan And he lies about those facts. Mr Khan may not be as overtly awful as Susan Hall. But he's not a competent or honest Mayor. x.com/silvertowntn/s…

Jo Maugham Sadiq Khan This is his biggest spending decision, by far, and his legacy to London; a massive, eye-wateringly expensive, polluting, white elephant: x.com/silvertowntn/s…

Chaminda Jayanetti James Austin Tom James O'Malley Sure, but it would more likely have been greenlit and we’d have more suburban rail under the TFL banner. I wonder if the Khan of this year would still have proceeded with the Silvertown tunnel, and perhaps the fact he did weakened his message around clean air too.