Our questions for Andy Burnham, our new Prime Minister: 🤔Is the Lower Thames Crossing delivering value for money for the taxpayer? 🤔 Is it a good idea to be privatising national assets whilst we’re nationalising the railways? transportactionnetwork.org.uk/campaign/low...

Mile for mile, the Lower Thames Crossing is likely to be more expensive than HS2. Yet public money is being thrown at this damaging road scheme without a completed business case in place!

"How can the Secretary of State justify handing £27bn to this failing body (National Highways) while councils across the country are crying out for these funds to make everyday walking and cycling safer?" - Sian Berry. Sian's expression at the end says it all!

HS2 has become shorthand for infrastructure failure in the UK. Sadly, lessons have not been learnt, and the Lower Thames Crossing could soon become the new poster child for infrastructure project failure. Is the LTC is the new HS2? transportactionnetwork.org.uk/is-the-lower...

Show our rivers the love they deserve! National Highways are not doing enough to protect rivers from road runoff. Join our campaign to protect our rivers and precious habitats. actionnetwork.org/letters/stop... #ValentinesDay

The Government is consulting on the biggest shake-up of planning rules since 2012. Use your voice, respond to this important consultation actionnetwork.org/letters/dema...

Smart Motorway evaluation reports have been released - finally! We're busy reading through them now. Sign up for our emails so you don't miss our updates on this transportactionnetwork.org.uk/sign-up/

Is it raining where you are? Every time it rains, oil, particulate matter, and microplastics from tyre and brake wear is washed off the roads, causing widespread pollution. National Highways is failing to tackle this problem for our busiest roads actionnetwork.org/letters/stop...

We campaign against expensive, damaging road schemes that just push the congestion problem away for a few years, like the Lower Thames Crossing (where costs have jumped 17% to £11bn in just 9 months). Stay up to date, sign up for our monthly newsletter transportactionnetwork.org.uk/sign-up/

Great to see so many people turn out to save Queensbury Tunnel Society on a damp and cold Sunday in January. The DfT needs to rethink its approach so that it doesn't waste scarce public funds blocking up the tunnel @nazshahbfd.bsky.social @judithcummins.bsky.social @thehregroup.bsky.social

It was reported in the FT at the end of last year that the cost of the Lower Thames Crossing (LTC) had jumped 17% to £11bn in just 9 months. The result will be higher tolls at Dartford and LTC for decades to come. transportactionnetwork.org.uk/campaign/low...

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Our review of 2025 👇🏾 transportactionnetwork.org.uk/2025-transpo...

Is the Lower Thames Crossing a gift or a turkey? thurrock.nub.news/news/local-n...

Warm words from the government promise to make walking, wheeling and cycling easier and safer. But its new strategy fails to learn from the past, isn’t integrated with other government plans or priorities, and is underfunded. Take action today 👇🏾 actionnetwork.org/letters/help...

Our response to today's announcement in the Chancellor’s Budget of a new pay as you drive charge for electric vehicles, the freeze on rail fares, the gradual withdrawal of the temporary fuel duty cut, and potentially an additional £890m for the Lower Thames Crossing 👇

The Lower Thames Crossing is a Smart Motorway in all but name. transportactionnetwork.org.uk/demand-for-t...

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...

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...

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...

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...

Not a single river in England is in good overall health. actionnetwork.org/letters/stop...

Every time it rains a toxic brew of oil spills, particulate matter, and microplastics from tyre and brake wear gets flushed into streams and rivers. Don't just sit back and accept this. Write to your MP today and demand action. actionnetwork.org/letters/stop...

Something to think about the next time it rains 😟

"We plant a lot of trees," Nick Harris, Chief Executive, National Highways. The A14 trees: three-quarters of the 850,000 saplings planted to replace veteran trees felled for the project died transportactionnetwork.org.uk/national-hig...

"It's not poo, so it (road runoff) doesn't capture the public attention the same" - Jo Bradley, Stormwater Shepherds, at the Environmental Audit Committee today.

"My concern is not only that the Water Quality Plan is not ambitious enough, my other concern is when they... have ticked a box at an outfall and said 'we've done this one, tick', they haven't." - Jo Bradley, Stormwater Shepherds, at the Environmental Audit Committee today

There has been barely any progress on increasing the number of people using sustainable transport (public transport and walking, wheeling and cycling) since the early 2000's!

Great to see campaigners getting together this morning to urge the Government to switch the cash from destructive and polluting road schemes, like the A38 expansion in Derby, to rail electrification. Support them 👇🏽 actionnetwork.org/letters/take...

However, @skynewsrss.bsky.social revealed in 2023 that three-quarters of the 850,000 saplings planted to replace veteran trees felled for the project had died. That's around 600,000 dead trees. Still no need to worry, National Highways said it would replant the trees...