Strong contingent outside The Labour Party Ireland conference calling on Louise Haigh and Rachel Reeves to save Save Rimrose Valley 🍃💚🍃 and cancel new roads to boost growth There are better investments

The Lower Thames Crossing is the world's most expensive sticking plaster. National Highways' claims are simply not credible bbc.co.uk/news/articles/…

Cancel New Roads To Boost Growth: Report by Transport Action Network. How Labour’s growth mission can be kickstarted by cancelling the Conservatives’ roads programme, fixing potholes, investing in public transport and active travel, and slashing the deficit.

Labour’s growth mission can be kickstarted by: ❌ cancelling the Conservatives’ roads programme 🤩 fixing potholes 🚍 investing in public transport and active travel transportactionnetwork.org.uk/wp-content/upl…

More roads. More traffic. More pollution. More countryside unlocked for development. constructionenquirer.com/2024/09/24/gal…

Induced demand strikes again. Build more roads, get more traffic, yet The Labour Party are still promising new roads despite the £15bn price tag. We could scrap new roads, spend more on improving public transport, and avoid freezing your nan for no reason this winter.

“..no other credible path to sustainable growth.. Rachel Reeves⁩ should not allow an arbitrary public debt rule of past admins to derail gov’s economic mission” #FundRailBusBike REALLOCATE road space 🇬🇧wide integrated network #NewRoadsNewTraffic ❌ theguardian.com/politics/2024/…

“Spending £9bn on a road that can’t even carry a bus is utterly nonsensical"

One more lane bro! America might be addicted to infinite road widening forever increasing pollution, but England doesn’t need to be as car-crazy as our friends across the pond. We need to end the induced demand fantasy and demand a road review from Rachel Reeves.

We have filed a formal complaint to the Office for Rail and Road (ORR) about National Highways’ inappropriate attempts to influence the decision making process for the £9bn Lower Thames Crossing. transportactionnetwork.org.uk/complaint-file…

Unfortunately so many people get their facts wrong about the £10bn+ Lower Thames Crossing, and do not know it has an extremely poor business case and won't fulfil its objectives thamescrossingactiongroup.com/ltc-not-fit-fo…

"Keir Starmer promised not to lead a government of easy answers. He needs the courage to say no to the Lower Thames Crossing and demand something better." Transport Action Network are right: the Lower Thames Crossing should be scrapped! greenallianceblog.org.uk/2024/10/03/is-…

The next roads programme needs to focus on maintenance and not building bigger roads. 81% of the public agree! forbes.com/sites/carltonr…

cycle routes costs on average £460,000 to £880,000 per km motorway on average costs £20 million + per km physical inactivity amongst adults contributes to 1 in 6 deaths in the UK & costs the NHS over £1 billion per year Build more cycle lanes, everyone wins Louise Haigh

It cost £297m to produce the Lower Thames Crossing's 359,866 page long planning application. That's more than it cost Norway to build the world's longest road tunnel. The Department for Transport was meant to decide whether to approve it today. Instead, we got another delay.

Decision on LTC punted which is better than being approved but not as good as being axed.

A well prepared document detailing the shortcomings of the lower Thames crossing. Briefing MPs at portcullis house Westminster. transportactionnetwork.org.uk/lower-thames-c… Transport Action Network Campaign for Better Transport Jen Craft MP James McMurdock MP Dr Lauren Sullivan MP Julia Lopez MP Jim Dickson MP for Dartford

Actually the main cause of this is a failure of transport strategy, putting a road building company in charge of looking at the best (multi-modal) ways of crossing the river in that area. And National Highways incompetence but they never talk about that, only planning!

National Highways saw all of its recorded carbon emissions rise in the latest financial year, data obtained by NCE has revealed. Full story: buff.ly/4eawxwm