Following on from my post over the weekend on the cable car that will connect the Greenwich Peninsula with ExCel later this year, London’s Mayor Boris Johnson has just announced plans for more transport links across the Thames.
A new road tunnel will connect the Greenwich Peninsula with the Silvertown area (where the Brunner Mond explosives factory was once located) at an estimated cost of around £600m, earmarked to open by 2022. A new ferry service will also be established to complement the existing Woolwich Ferry, between Beckton in the north and Gallions Reach in the south, to open in 2017. I doubt that anyone took any notice of the skeptical tone of my earlier post, but it’s good to know that he recognises the problem and is prepared to do something about the issue of transport in East London!
What do you think? Should the Mayor have re-started the stalled bridge project instead, or is this the way to go?
January 12, 2012
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