And this applies to all in Thurrock, it affects this area terribly, I live 10 miles from Lakeside, if there are problems on M25 either side of the bridge or on the bridge, then no way can anyone get in my area get anywhere, this affects cars travelling either way the traffic jams start to hit major roads locally like the A13 or the Arterial Road and Grays itself, then the side roads as drivers try to get out of the jams, the spill over of traffic just brings it all to a standstill and causes locals huge problems, do I support the new bridge, NO, on what planet do the people who plan this live on to think it is ok to support the opening of a new crossing just 12 miles away from the one and other, without thinking of any of the residents that will be stuck in the middle of both I just cannot fathom it out, when anything happens to either crossings drivers will try and divert to the the other one its human nature to keep going, I would support it if one crossing was for oncoming traffic and the other one was for outgoing traffic.
get a bicycle, they absolutely hate bicycles and cyclists because they pay no road tax, buy no petrol or oil, consume tiny amounts of natural resources and generate no toxic fumes. cyclists are fit, heathy and engaged with thier envornment in a way car drivers aren't. cyclists can't be persuaded to build more roads for more cars so you can sit in more traffic for longer, because they never have to sit in traffic in the first place. stick it to the oil billionaires that ripped us off last winter and get a bike
"just one more road bro, just one more road, i promise it's the last one bro, just one more road" we need walkable cities and pleasant, cheap, efficient public transport like they have in countries that aren't run by disaster capitalists. these conmen just want that free government money, no oversight, no questions asked. where's the transparency? who are you people and what do you get out of it is my first question always. I also have additional questions: who will build the road? what are the penalties if they don't deliver on time or to spec? who oversees and enforces that? are there effective mechanisms to claw back public money if the project is a failure, or if the work turns out to be substandard years later? will there be binding contracts on individuals so that there are meaningful criminal prosecutions for malfeasance or if it subsequently turns out that the public were misled? where can i see the data about traffic in the dartford crossing area? where are the published statistics and analysis? pretty sure we can bring things in on time and under budget when contractors are held to the same standards as other public service employees is the consultation going to look sincerely at other options? is another crossing really the solution? (tip from civil engineers and city planners: badly placed roads can actually increase traffic) these are all the questions a business would ask and yet these business people never seem to have done thier due dilligence by asking them, leaving the taxpayer who bankrolled this whole scheme to also pick up the peices. this all became glaringly apparent when we watched it happen live in real time as the COVID PPE scandal played out and we watched millions in public money fall into the hands of the posh boys club. sick of the whitewashing of public sentiment. of course people are frustrated about sitting in traffic, they're given no other option. just another example of how your choices are managed for you, not by telling you what to think, but by telling you what to think about.
Of course it causes inconvenience when there are traffic jams across the R Thames. But this inconvenience is trivial compared to the devastating effect that the millions of new roads are causing across the whole planet. You must think of bolder plans to solve our crazy obsession with travelling on roads. The cumulative effect is DESTROYING our biodiversity and escalating CO2. Think global!
Big up mr Harvey.
And this applies to all in Thurrock, it affects this area terribly, I live 10 miles from Lakeside, if there are problems on M25 either side of the bridge or on the bridge, then no way can anyone get in my area get anywhere, this affects cars travelling either way the traffic jams start to hit major roads locally like the A13 or the Arterial Road and Grays itself, then the side roads as drivers try to get out of the jams, the spill over of traffic just brings it all to a standstill and causes locals huge problems, do I support the new bridge, NO, on what planet do the people who plan this live on to think it is ok to support the opening of a new crossing just 12 miles away from the one and other, without thinking of any of the residents that will be stuck in the middle of both I just cannot fathom it out, when anything happens to either crossings drivers will try and divert to the the other one its human nature to keep going, I would support it if one crossing was for oncoming traffic and the other one was for outgoing traffic.
get a bicycle, they absolutely hate bicycles and cyclists because they pay no road tax, buy no petrol or oil, consume tiny amounts of natural resources and generate no toxic fumes. cyclists are fit, heathy and engaged with thier envornment in a way car drivers aren't. cyclists can't be persuaded to build more roads for more cars so you can sit in more traffic for longer, because they never have to sit in traffic in the first place. stick it to the oil billionaires that ripped us off last winter and get a bike
"just one more road bro, just one more road, i promise it's the last one bro, just one more road"
we need walkable cities and pleasant, cheap, efficient public transport like they have in countries that aren't run by disaster capitalists. these conmen just want that free government money, no oversight, no questions asked. where's the transparency? who are you people and what do you get out of it is my first question always. I also have additional questions:
who will build the road? what are the penalties if they don't deliver on time or to spec? who oversees and enforces that? are there effective mechanisms to claw back public money if the project is a failure, or if the work turns out to be substandard years later? will there be binding contracts on individuals so that there are meaningful criminal prosecutions for malfeasance or if it subsequently turns out that the public were misled? where can i see the data about traffic in the dartford crossing area? where are the published statistics and analysis?
pretty sure we can bring things in on time and under budget when contractors are held to the same standards as other public service employees
is the consultation going to look sincerely at other options? is another crossing really the solution? (tip from civil engineers and city planners: badly placed roads can actually increase traffic)
these are all the questions a business would ask and yet these business people never seem to have done thier due dilligence by asking them, leaving the taxpayer who bankrolled this whole scheme to also pick up the peices. this all became glaringly apparent when we watched it happen live in real time as the COVID PPE scandal played out and we watched millions in public money fall into the hands of the posh boys club. sick of the whitewashing of public sentiment. of course people are frustrated about sitting in traffic, they're given no other option. just another example of how your choices are managed for you, not by telling you what to think, but by telling you what to think about.
Of course it causes inconvenience when there are traffic jams across the R Thames. But this inconvenience is trivial compared to the devastating effect that the millions of new roads are causing across the whole planet. You must think of bolder plans to solve our crazy obsession with travelling on roads. The cumulative effect is DESTROYING our biodiversity and escalating CO2. Think global!