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Green light for new london bridge

24 March 2004

Friends of the Earth criticised Transport for London (TfL) today after its Board approved a controversial new bridge across the Thames, despite the fact that a full environmental impact assessment has not been completed.

The environmental campaign group said that the proposed £450 million Thames Gateway Bridge between Beckton in the east and Thamesmead in the south-east of London will increase traffic and pollution and be of little benefit to the local community, who have not been properly consulted. TfL is now expected to apply for planning permission.

Friends of the Earth's London Campaigns Co-ordinator said:

"This is a bad day for the people of East and South East London. This new bridge will bring little to the area except more traffic and pollution. But the fight is far from over. We will continue to campaign against this bridge and Transport for London's short-sighted vision that supports it being built."

Friends of the Earth opposes the proposed 6-lane road bridge because:

The report for the Office of the Deputy Prime Minister: Llewelyn Davies and Steer Davies Gleave with Roger Tym & Partners and Atkins, for the ODPM "Relationship between Transport and Development in the Thames Gateway", July 2003
http://www.odpm.gov.uk/stellent/groups/odpm_communities/ ¬
documents/page/odpm_comm_023468.hcsp

For more on Friends of the Earth's views on the Thames Gateway bridge, see www.foe.co.uk/london

or see
www.foe.co.uk/campaigns/local_groups_and_campaigns/ ¬
thames_gateway/mayors_consultation.html

Notes

1. Professor John Whitelegg has written a report: "Thames Gateway River Crossing: a social, economic and environmental assessment", January 2002, for the Simon Woolf Charitable Foundation.

2. John Elliott has written a report: "A Solution looking for a Problem - a review of Transport for London's proposals for river crossings in East London and their traffic impact", March 2003, for Transport 2000.


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