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Phil Sturgeon 🌳🚵⚓️
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Dammit, I knew Lower Thames Crossing would get the go ahead. This wastes billions of pounds to trash ancient woodland just to induce more driving instead of ever EVER doing anything to improve train quality/capacity/price. #StopRIS2

Stephen Frost@sfrost.bsky.social

This is far from the public’s priority for transport investment and every £ spent here is not being used to deliver projects that would really make a difference to people’s daily journeys and undermining goals to get more stuff moving by rail. Disappointing.

bbc.co.ukLower Thames Crossing project awarded £590m by Rachel ReevesWork on the Lower Thames Crossing is expected to begin in 2026 and finish by 2032.

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Phil Sturgeon 🌳🚵⚓️
@philsturgeon.com

“LTC is a deeply flawed and short-sighted scheme that will destroy up to 8 hectares of irreplaceable ancient woodland, emit 6.5 million tonnes of greenhouse gases, making it the highest carbon-emitting road scheme in the UK and worsen air pollution.” www.kentwildlifetrust.org.uk/campaigns/lo...

kentwildlifetrust.org.ukLower Thames CrossingThe Lower Thames Crossing is a proposed new road which will connect Kent with Essex by tunnelling beneath the River Thames estuary. Kent Wildlife Trust is opposed to these plans as they will result in...
Phil Sturgeon 🌳🚵⚓️
@philsturgeon.com

Lower Thames Crossing will destroy 0.32 hectares of ancient woodland per km, which is 3x the 0.09 hectares of ancient woodland directly impacted per km for HS2. Then there’s the emissions for construction and usage. Both wildly different. Can we please get mad about the right projects.

Phil Sturgeon 🌳🚵⚓️
@philsturgeon.com

That chart is one I put together for Greens4HS2, the campaign group of Greens who helped turn the tide from anti to pro HS2 internally. Perhaps next we need to campaign @greenparty.org.uk to go anti-RIS2/3 (group of roads where LTC is only 1/50). @zackpolanski.bsky.social hs2.green/the-carbon-n...

hs2.greenThe carbon numbers: what is the full potential of HS2? - Greens4HS2All transportation infrastructure projects emit CO2 when being built, but only trains earn that CO2 back, because when people switch from high-CO2 modes like cars and planes, the only question is “how...