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George Monbiot @georgemonbiot.bsky.social · 16/06/2025

We do not need new roads; we need better transport options. Think of what could be done with £9.2bn, which is to be spent on just 14 miles of road! It could transform bus services and/or cycling and pedestrian infrastructure across Britain. www.theguardian.com/business/202...

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UK government pledges further £590m for delayed Lower Thames Crossing

Rachel Reeves calls Britain’s biggest road-building project a ‘turning point for our national infrastructure’

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The Fucking Bitch of the Welsh 🫘 @welshaspossible.bsky.social · 16/06/2025

It would probably cost about that to give every person in Britain who wanted one an e-bike.

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Goonerby @goonerby.bsky.social · 16/06/2025

We could fix some of the roads we already have first too.

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Triassic @triassic.bsky.social · 16/06/2025

The average distance travelled by car was 8.8 miles in 2022. An e-bike or e-scooter would be a better option than a car. Legalise e-scooters, and stop listening to the car lobby.

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Dan (this/that) 🇪🇺🇵🇹📷 @chopalley.bsky.social · 16/06/2025

Why can the Dutch build a 4mile Westerschelde tunnel for only €750million?

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sallynicholson.bsky.social @sallynicholson.bsky.social · 16/06/2025

Not doing much for the planet, are they?!

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alistair g👋 @alistairblantyre.bsky.social · 16/06/2025

😳🥴✅

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Bahhhb @americanbahhb.bsky.social · 16/06/2025

Within a year of being finished, it will be just another gridlocked road across the Thames. Please, PLEASE put a rail crossing in or maybe spend the money doing something about the fact there is NO WAY to travel east of Oxford without a car without travelling 30mi north or south, for instance.

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Keith Campbell Tupman @alex-harvey-1960.bsky.social · 16/06/2025

Or. How about reopening the railway between Tavi and Plymouth? The A386 over Roborough Down on any given day is a horrorshow of bumper-to-bumper single (frustrated) driver commuter cars. Cyclists use this road at their peril…

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John M 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿🇪🇺 @drjohnm61.bsky.social · 16/06/2025

£9.2bn of debt is around £370m of annual debt interest. The countries of the UK pick up a population % of national debt interest, so even though this is a construction in London, Scotland will pick up an extra £30m of charges on GERS. That’s £30m p/a forever that cannot be spent on stuff for 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿

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Darren and Benny 🙏🌍💚 @mrmoog.bsky.social · 16/06/2025

All money and no sense.

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Get us TF out the (dis-)UK @rrdb.bsky.social · 16/06/2025

… and Scotland will pay 8% of that. Such a bargain for us. Independence a.s.a.p.

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Transport Action Network @transportaction.bsky.social · 16/06/2025

Exactly this! We give some examples of what could be done instead with the money the Lower Thames Crossing would need in our most recent blog post transportactionnetwork.org.uk/lower-thames...

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Jason Gorman @jasongorman.bsky.social · 16/06/2025

Yes, but then how will the people who own property get to their Rotary Club meetings?

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Defender 🌱 ⓋFTA (#Pigoneer 🐽) @grahanimal.bsky.social · 16/06/2025

ULEZ nationwide should be the default, not the exception. However, it needs to be enabled by much more affordable public transport.

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Linda Allen @slugsrool.bsky.social · 16/06/2025

Not to mention the environmental catastrophe of this project and 5m tonnes of CO2. Mindless.

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Andy Smart @andysmart1948.bsky.social · 16/06/2025

[satire]When they stop the Thames Crossing half way across, it will become clear that LTC, like HS2, is a nuclear bunker for the elite, their immediate family, pets and domestic servants. Nothing to do with 'transport' [/satire]

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Niki @nikkiuk.bsky.social · 16/06/2025

I would love to be able to cycle to most places. But the cycle paths are not connected.They breakup in places and put you on the road which everyone hates. Even to cycle to grocery store would be great but impossible (even bus route is impossible as it adds 8 miles to the otherwise 3 mile journey)🤷‍♀️

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Gareth Dennis @garethdennis.uk · 16/06/2025

Over a decade of £2 bus fare cap, for starters.

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Lordy @lordey.bsky.social · 16/06/2025

It's a long walk between Aberdeen and Inverness, two important cities in Scotland with a single, dangerous, carriageway linking them that's often closed because of accidents. People surrounded by motorways imagine everywhere is the same.

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MescaleroDevilDog @mescalerodevildog.bsky.social · 16/06/2025

What happened to the British Railway System that use to be the envy of the world? To me, the railways are still the best mode of transport. I am a fan of trains, we should stop building highways but modernize and expand the railway system everywhere.

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breathingatdepth.bsky.social @breathingatdepth.bsky.social · 16/06/2025

Such consideration requires vision & critical reasoning. Qualities generally lacking in most governments & the current one is no different.

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MaggieP @mip36.bsky.social · 16/06/2025

How right you are!

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Nico in Medway @eurejoiner.bsky.social · 16/06/2025

#Reeves is Rong. £9bn would give a head start to a sustainable tramway, e.g. #KenEx Tram

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oldexonian.bsky.social @oldexonian.bsky.social · 16/06/2025

Can motorways be converted to railways? As in the channel tunnel. A train picks up a stream of cars and travels 100 miles in 60 mins safely. Could channel tunnel for cars run from M25?

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Heat and Dust 🕉 @coromandelsunrise.bsky.social · 16/06/2025

Only London matters......and this has always been the case. Nothing in this country which is North of that zone, is even considered. We're still using paper transport tickets here.....,and strictly speaking, the East Mids isn't even 'the North'. Pathetic and infuriating in equal measure 🤬😠

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Fari Bradley @faribrad.bsky.social · 16/06/2025

Pls comment on #Palantir and our #NHS

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Adam Wisent @adamwisent.bsky.social · 16/06/2025

Or better still new railway connections

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Weuvas 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿🏴󠁧󠁢󠁷󠁬󠁳󠁿🇮🇪 @weuvas.bsky.social · 16/06/2025

Totally agree. We're still waiting for electrification of the rail lines from Hull and Cleethorpes. We're also supposed to be getting a direct train link from Cleethorpes to London but so far after 10 plus years we only know it might be operated by Grand Central.

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Margaret McG🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿 @caledoni4.bsky.social · 16/06/2025

Across England do you mean?

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wonkyjonty.bsky.social @wonkyjonty.bsky.social · 16/06/2025

Let’s hope it will be better managed than the truly appalling HS2 project. But I won’t hold my breath. 😵‍💫🫤

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Captain Easychord @suddenstars.bsky.social · 16/06/2025

Totally agree. We should be doing everything we can to reduce car use. Working from home, lift share, public transport etc. More roads simply means more cars.

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notsewmot.bsky.social @notsewmot.bsky.social · 16/06/2025

The UK seems to be a place where it seems a good idea to bypass Stonehenge by spending £1-2bn on a tunnel in the middle of the countryside or building a bridge across the Thames for a few hundred £m merely to house a garden.

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daisydewdrop18.bsky.social @daisydewdrop18.bsky.social · 16/06/2025

Pensioners like me are being priced off the roads - we desperately need more buses and reliable ones. Even taxis are unreliable!

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Nicolette 🫟 @nico2lette.bsky.social · 16/06/2025

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Cycling Commuter @cycling-commuter.bsky.social · 16/06/2025

Pensioners who cling to Range Rovers & other large vehicles can benefit most from all-weather cycling networks completely separate from large vehicles that can also be used by mobility scooters & 3 or 4-wheel weatherproof cycles. Prescription drugs often affect balance, making 2-wheelers risky.

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Jonathan Williams @realjonwilliams.bsky.social · 16/06/2025

The most universally beloved London infrastructure project of late is the Elizabeth line and this government thinks what we actually need is more roads.

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Siue Allen @sitebadger.bsky.social · 16/06/2025

I’d prefer to see the existing infrastructure maintained!

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mattP#BRETURN @matt66.bsky.social · 16/06/2025

We do need better road surfaces, we need rail money to be spent better ( not HS2 , not EWR on its current route ), we need more cycling infrastructure which Inc car park & ride

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Swarb96 @swarb96.bsky.social · 16/06/2025

Irrespective of other alternatives, only those who never need to cross the Dartford crossing or travel within 20 miles of it in rush hour, would reject this scheme. It’s 20ys too late is all.

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Dirty Ole Town @dirty-ile-town.bsky.social · 16/06/2025

Now imagine living elsewhere from SE England where all our taxpayers money gets given. WM is a farce

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Louise @skywomble.bsky.social · 16/06/2025

This is going to have bad repercussions on north Kent.

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Colin Brazier @mmmmtrams.bsky.social · 16/06/2025

Could incorporate a light railway on the crossing which would also massively improve public transport.

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Fred Bamforth @freddybam.bsky.social · 16/06/2025

It’s extremely easy for someone in London to say that Travel North of Watford and options on financing infra are actually less than zero as repairs don’t even happen

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isyfa.bsky.social @isyfa.bsky.social · 16/06/2025

What about improving the rail services especially goods to reduce that hailed by road to local only?

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Andrew Brook @andrewbrook.bsky.social · 16/06/2025

You try walking across the Thames :-)

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MartyH @mogo-uk.bsky.social · 16/06/2025

Without doubt. All this talk of electric vehicles, being the best solution for our cities and cleaner air. We should be stopping building personal transport and investing in clean, safe, affordable public transport.

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greensdavid.bsky.social @greensdavid.bsky.social · 16/06/2025

Funds are there to spend but spending is misdirected. Not more roads, but road alternatives. Not nuclear, but tidal energy. Not enforcement, but changing bad thinking. Not retaliate, but bury hatred and share a future.

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George Monbiot @georgemonbiot.bsky.social · 16/06/2025

But there are two main determinants of capital spending in the UK: A. Will it generate massive and lucrative contracts for big business? B. Can ministers pose beside it in a hard hat and yellow coat?

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Mr Thursday @mr-thursday.bsky.social · 16/06/2025

The UK should have had it's own TGV decades ago. Instead the railways were sold off by the Tories to pay for tax cuts. While British Rail had it's issues, they were nothing compared to the terrible state of the railways today.

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Stephen Drennan @stephen1958.bsky.social · 16/06/2025

With so much essential freight crossing the channel, there is a resilience case for reducing dependence on the M20 & the Dartford Tunnel. But there is also a freight terminal at Dover which is *right beside* a railway line it doesn’t use. And Eurotunnel is, in fact, you know…a railway line.

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David Thompson @djt1million.bsky.social · 16/06/2025

I completely agree, this is one scheme that should be dumped. Apart from the pointlessness of yet another relief road that will provide no relief, the cost is astonishing. For all the new investment promised to 'the north', no-one outside of London gets £9.2 Billion for 1 stretch of road.No-one.

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Exhumated 🧟 unDead @slothlydad.bsky.social · 16/06/2025

And given the cost/benefit ratio of cycle and pedestrian infrastructure - especially in towns and cities - the savings for the NHS could be huge.

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Jen Ratcliffe @jenratcliffe.bsky.social · 16/06/2025

Imagine they had actually spent HS2 money on improving the railway and we had an environmental and economical way to travel in the UK right now. It's much easier to sink money into new projects that magically never materialise

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𝕷𝖚𝖓𝖆 𝕷𝖊𝖕𝖚𝖘 ⛥ @lunalepus.bsky.social · 16/06/2025

I really wish I didn't have to wait half an hour just to get a bus or a train. But this is exactly what they're giving us?? A year later and the Labour party is still trash.

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mrbgumbo.bsky.social @mrbgumbo.bsky.social · 16/06/2025

When will they invest in on demand, non stop buses which go directly from my home to place of work?

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Yrotitna @yrotitna.bsky.social · 16/06/2025

When will they learn that building new roads doesn’t ease congestion it just attracts more traffic leasing to more congestion. Adding a 4th lane to the M25 is a perfect example, it is still as congested as ever

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Bottlo’dog @bottlodog.bsky.social · 16/06/2025

How about improving the country lane that is the A1 in Northumberland!?!?!? Sick to death of hearing of massive infrastructure projects in London and the south east whilst the north east has to beg, cap in hand, for the paltry sum of money needed to maintain the Tyne bridge

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Sotired42 @sotired42.bsky.social · 16/06/2025

It also could prevent many of us disabled to not have to keep begging to stay alive.

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Sean of the Dread @sheepbop.bsky.social · 16/06/2025

In this case I think it's a good one. Keeping goods traffic out of London for as you say such a short amount of road. The Greens were campaigning for this last time I heard.

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Memories of Kuwaiti - Iraqi border @jercor.bsky.social · 16/06/2025

Doesn’t it depend on how the government sees what’ll bring in the most income?( exchequer) especially when the charge for road usage isn’t that far away , there’s got to be a way to claw back money lost from fuel duty .

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