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Transport Action Network @transportaction.bsky.social · 2h

Oversight of the Lower Thames Crossing has been taken away from National Highways and handed to the Department for Transport.

Will this go the same way as HS2 with ballooning budgets and no accountability? www.theguardian.com/business/202...

UK ministers take control of £10bn Lower Thames Crossing

Exclusive: National Highways Agency stripped of oversight with project handed to DfT amid Labour government drive for growth

www.theguardian.com

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Transport Action Network @transportaction.bsky.social · 7h

“Taking it outside of National Highways’ roads programme and treating it as a stand-alone project, with a DfT-signed blank cheque, risks going the same way as HS2 with ballooning budgets and no accountability.” - @ecochris.bsky.social in @theguardian.com www.theguardian.com/business/202...

UK ministers take control of £10bn Lower Thames Crossing

Exclusive: National Highways Agency stripped of oversight with project handed to DfT amid Labour government drive for growth

www.theguardian.com

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Transport Action Network @transportaction.bsky.social · 4d

The government is consulting on plans to reform the Planning Act 2008, to remove the requirement to consult local people on Nationally Significant Infrastructure Projects, such as National Highways' road schemes.

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Take Action

Take Action This page lists any significant consultations or actions that people might wish to engage with, as well as how to report problems on the street: OPEN CONSULTATIONS NATIONAL Consultation on...

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Transport Action Network @transportaction.bsky.social · 5d

Time restrictions on bus passes lock Disabled people out of work, study and our community.

It’s time to #UnlockTransportAccess

actionnetwork.org/letters/unlo... @transportforall.org.uk

Unlock Disabled Travel: Email Your MP Now

Transport is what helps us live our lives — to get to work or school, to see friends, go shopping, or get to medical appointments. But many Disabled people are being shut out of society because the ve...

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Transport Action Network @transportaction.bsky.social · 5d

As of 2025, many years after National Highways first promised to act, nothing has been done with pollution from the M27 pouring daily straight into the River Hamble.
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National Highways’ Toxic Run-Off

It has been widely reported that our rivers are polluted, with not a single river in England in good overall health. What isn’t so well known is that a major source of this pollution comes from our ro...

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Transport Action Network @transportaction.bsky.social · 6d

Runoff ponds for water and pollution management around the M25 could be full of hazardous waste as National Highways was unable to identify when they were last cleaned, according to a New Civil Engineer report last year. transportactionnetwork.org.uk/national-hig...

National Highways’ Toxic Run-Off

It has been widely reported that our rivers are polluted, with not a single river in England in good overall health. What isn’t so well known is that a major source of this pollution comes from our ro...

transportactionnetwork.org.uk

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Roger Geffen @rogergeffen.bsky.social · 7d

This Wed (8th Oct), I will be contributing to a webinar about how the Government's #planning and #devolution reforms could support #LowTrafficHomes, with safe streets, great public transport, homes close to schools / shops / etc, and attractive outdoor space. To register, visit tinyurl.com/2yh3cux6.

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Transport Action Network @transportaction.bsky.social · 7d

The Department for Transport has sat on the evaluation reports for nine ‘smart’ motorway schemes that were completed in 2022... The results must be so embarrassing that the DfT are refusing to publish them!
transportinsights.blog/2025/09/25/e...

Exclusive: Labour blocks smart motorway safety data

Ministers are sitting on a huge amount of data on the safety and value for money of smart motorway schemes, including at least nine that were due for completion in 2022. The concealment of multiple…

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Transport Action Network @transportaction.bsky.social · 7d

National Highways is not doing enough to tackle widespread pollution of our rivers and groundwater.

Write to your MP today and call for more funding within RIS3 to be allocated to clearing up our rivers.
actionnetwork.org/letters/stop...

Stop National Highways’ toxic water pollution!

We all know our rivers are polluted. However, it’s not just from sewage, or due to the inaction of failing water companies. What is less talked about, but in many ways worse than sewage and even more ...

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Low Traffic Future @lowtrafficfuture.bsky.social · 10d

🚨 Event incoming!
🗓️ Thursday 16th Oct 2025. 8–9pm

Stuck in the Slow Lane: Tackling Car Dependency 🚗↘️

Join us and Izzy from @wearepossible.bsky.social where we explore the art of communicating the case for reducing car dependence

🔗 Register now (it's free!) actionnetwork.org/events/commu...

Banner image showing a cartoon streetscape with tram at the centre. Headline reads 'Stuck in the Slow Lane: Tackling Car Dependency'

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Transport Action Network @transportaction.bsky.social · 10d

We all know our rivers are polluted.

But it’s not just from sewage, or due to the inaction of failing water companies...

actionnetwork.org/letters/stop...

Stop National Highways’ toxic water pollution!

We all know our rivers are polluted. However, it’s not just from sewage, or due to the inaction of failing water companies. What is less talked about, but in many ways worse than sewage and even more ...

actionnetwork.org

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Transport Action Network @transportaction.bsky.social · 11d

With 6m tonnes of extra carbon emissions this will generate, the Lower Thames Crossing is anything but green, no matter how much spin there is.

New Civil Engineer @social.newcivilengineer.com · 11d

The world’s first hydrogen-powered digger has started work on the Lower Thames Crossing, marking a step towards National Highways’ pledge to make the project carbon neutral in construction

Full story: buff.ly/PTp0y46

World first hydrogen-powered digger gets to work on Lower Thames Crossing | New Civil Engineer

The multi-billion pound project, a new road and tunnel linking Kent and Essex designed to increase capacity across the Thames, is intended to ease

www.newcivilengineer.com

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Transport Action Network @transportaction.bsky.social · 12d

Many critical rail schemes that the Government has ‘paused’ (effectively cancelled) or ignored (not funded) would offer far more in growth than the Lower Thames Crossing and provide more benefits. transportactionnetwork.org.uk/the-lower-th...

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Transport Action Network @transportaction.bsky.social · 12d

Not a single river in England is in good overall health.

National Highways, a government-owned company, needs to prioritise its funding to clean up the toxic brew polluting our rivers!

Take action today by writing to your MP: actionnetwork.org/letters/stop...

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Transport Action Network @transportaction.bsky.social · 13d

The Lower Thames Crossing has a weak business case.

A more effective way of boosting the economy would be to fix Britain’s crumbling roads throughout the whole country.
transportactionnetwork.org.uk/the-lower-th...

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Transport Action Network @transportaction.bsky.social · 13d

So many rail schemes in England are not progressing. Apparently it is due to a lack of funds.

Yet £millions has been allocated for the Lower Thames Crossing 'smart' motorway! transportactionnetwork.org.uk/the-lower-th...

The Lower Thames Crossing 'smart' motorway is the enemy of growth

A poor investment and waste of precious public funds The Lower Thames Crossing (LTC) ‘smart’ motorway – located in the far South East and more expensive per mile even than HS21 - poses a direct threat...

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Transport Action Network @transportaction.bsky.social · 14d

Did you know that not a single river in England is in good overall health?! National Highways, a government-owned company, needs to prioritise its funding to clean up the toxic brew polluting our rivers! actionnetwork.org/letters/stop...

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Transport Action Network @transportaction.bsky.social · 14d

This government seems intent on wasting more of our money on the Lower Thames Crossing, while cancelling rail schemes up and down the country.

Here's why the LTC is a poor investment and a waste of precious public funds: transportactionnetwork.org.uk/the-lower-th...

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Transport Action Network @transportaction.bsky.social · 14d

Or would you prefer more money is spent on the Lower Thames Crossing? transportactionnetwork.org.uk/campaign/low...

Lower Thames Crossing

Lower Thames Crossing This page contains all our information on the Lower Thames Crossing (LTC) and possible alternatives: Taking all the cash The Lower Thames Crossing 'smart' motorway is the enemy o...

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Transport Action Network @transportaction.bsky.social · 14d

Would you like to see these rail schemes up and running?

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Transport Action Network @transportaction.bsky.social · 15d

The Labour government wants to build the £16bn Lower Thames Crossing 'smart' motorway.

But for every £1 spent on it, it will only deliver £1.22 of benefits. Road maintenance delivers £7 of benefits!
transportactionnetwork.org.uk/campaign/low...

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Transport Action Network @transportaction.bsky.social · 17d

National Highways cannot be allowed to pretend most outfalls are not a problem or that it only needs to treat a tiny proportion of them.

All are leaching heavy metals and carcinogens into our rivers and groundwater.
actionnetwork.org/letters/stop...

Stop National Highways’ toxic water pollution!

We all know our rivers are polluted. However, it’s not just from sewage, or due to the inaction of failing water companies. What is less talked about, but in many ways worse than sewage and even more ...

actionnetwork.org

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Chinley and Buxworth Transport Group @cbtransportgroup.bsky.social · 18d

... but what would be the best celebration of the railway & its capacity to serve the people would be a proper policy from the DfT to allow everyone to get onto the platforms - Access for All !
@transportaction.bsky.social @sustrans.bsky.social @whaleychronicle.bsky.social @disrightsuk.bsky.social

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Jennifer Williams @jenwilliamsft.bsky.social · 18d

Listening to Andy Burnham on BBC Radio Manchester and the calls are mainly about: transport. Bolton caller: where’s the tram we were promised (which they were). Doesn’t personally care about the “prime minister debate”, wants to know why they spend 4 hrs commuting when they live 12 miles away

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Drew Meehan @drewdraws2.bsky.social · 20d

I am the consummate car guy. I dedicated my life to creating and adoring them. But I have also learned that life is better when you don’t need one. I’d rather take the bike and/or the train and I love living in a walkable city. It’s not about “taking away your car”, it’s about giving you a choice.

Brent Toderian @brenttoderian.bsky.social · 20d

You can be a “car guy” and not like car dependency. You can be a “car guy” and get that too many cars in cities is bad for everyone, including drivers. You can be a “car guy” and be tired of lies & manipulations like “the war on cars.” You can be a “car guy” and know more choice means more freedom.

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