The Silvertown Tunnel project is a £2.2bn scam - a bait and switch. The highest costs for this fraud will be paid by residents some of London's poorest communities, who will suffer worse air, & worse health, for decades. The winners are banks & construction companies. 🧵 1/n

Air pollution causing 1,100 cases a year of main form of lung cancer in UK “Yet still the government fails to take decisive action, even just last week giving the go ahead to an additional runway at Heathrow which will undoubtedly increase air pollution.”

RT @AndyWandy777: @SilvertownTn @SadiqKhan Along with the City Airport expansion it feels like @MayorofLondon has just written off Newham r…

@Clockwisesss @loweringthe_bar @TfL @david_lew @David_Llew Grinch is a troll. (Or possibly a stray TfL/GLA manager). Silvertown adds traffic, pollution, and congestion. That's a fact from TfL's own modelling. They use the proposed toll on Blackwall (an entirely separate scheme) to try to disguise that fact.

RT @Clockwisesss: @SilvertownTn @TfL @david_lew @David_Llew I do wonder what will happen in the future. Each London Mayor has had aspiratio…

@Clockwisesss @TfL @david_lew @David_Llew Apologies yes, it should be @David_Llew

Meanwhile, @SadiqKhan is about to open the Silvertown Tunnel, which will funnel 25,000 more polluting vehicles (including HGVs) every day into Newham - already London's most polluted borough, and one of its most diverse.

@BellRibeiroAddy @EnactEquality @Lmyah_sherae @ImpUrbanHealth @GreenJennyJones @sianberry Meanwhile, @SadiqKhan is about to open the Silvertown Tunnel, which will funnel 25,000 more polluting vehicles (including HGVs) every day into Newham - already London's most polluted borough, and one of its most diverse.

@ZackPolanski Ah, @Ed_Miliband, spineless as ever. You can resign, Ed. You don't have to be part of a government that has decided to abandon its climate commitments and double down on high-emission business-as-usual.

RT @BELLEGREENWICH: Exelllent questions directed at @TfL by @David_Llew! A shame the ‘Transport Planning Manager continued to make the cas…

RT @BELLEGREENWICH: @Tfl baselines to monitor pollution levels on Silvertown Tunnel approach roads are 13 years out of date yet they contin…

RT @BELLEGREENWICH: A portion of fine particulate matter classified as PM 2.5 can consist of nanoplastics. It’s very disappointing @TfL ref…

RT @hazr198: The UK too. Thank god Sadiq Khan is building the Bakerloo Bus route instead of tube line extension 🙃

@metecoban92 @kewgardens @LDN_environment @SadiqKhan It's all moot when the GLA's biggest spending item, by far, is a massive new road that will send 25,000 more vehicles a day into Newham, already London's most polluted borough, and home to to some of its poorest & most ethnically diverse communities.

RT @BELLEGREENWICH: Thank you to Alex Marsh for meeting with us.I have no faith in @MayorofLondon to do the right thing so have liaised wit…

RT @hackneygazette: 'A Silvertown tunnel lorry lane is bonkers - they could do better for Greenwich'

RT @SilvertownTn: “The air pollution is already incredibly high here,” Victoria said. “The climate emergency is not an abstract thing in t…

RT @NewhamRecorder: 'A Silvertown tunnel lorry lane is bonkers - they could do better for Greenwich'

RT @climatecyadv: @SilvertownTn I'm worried the tunnel will make air pollution even worse, especially for kids' health.

“The air pollution is already incredibly high here,” Victoria said. “The climate emergency is not an abstract thing in the future, it’s happening right now.” Greenwich parents warn about Silvertown tunnel pollution | News Shopper