M3 scheme escapes Labour's VFM review as cost soars13/03/2025 Ministers have claimed credit for backing a longstanding road scheme that Labour froze under its Transport Infrastructure Review, whose costs rose by around half in the meantime. |
Defra backs Burnham's plan to avoid CAZ24/01/2025 The Government has backed Greater Manchester’s decision not to implement a clean air zone and instead to take an ‘investment-led approach’ to pollution. |
Silvertown Tunnel to open in spring07/01/2025 The Silvertown Tunnel is due to open on 7 April, with new bus routes serving the tunnel launching the same day. |
'Carbon bomb' warning adds to relief road woes23/12/2024 Shropshire Council has sought to shrug off a new estimate of the carbon impact of its controversial relief road scheme by increasing the budget and timescale for its pledge to offset the scheme’s emissions. |
Thames tunnel carbon pledges 'not watertight'12/12/2023 National Highways has refused to disclose the penalties that contractors would pay if they breached contract clauses it says are central to ‘ensuring’ that the Lower Thames Crossing meets new carbon limits. |
Carbon cut claims in £450m LTC award date back to 202021/07/2023 National Highways has announced Skanska as the preferred bidder for the Kent Roads contract on the £9bn Lower Thames Crossing (LTC) project, but has confirmed that a 30% cut in projected carbon emission under the £450m contract brings emissions to the level it has already stated to be current best practice. |
National Highways gets PAS 2080 accreditation15/12/2022 National Highways has achieved a globally recognised accreditation for its ‘commitment and ambition’ to cut carbon. |
Academics to provide LTC carbon 'assurance'07/10/2022 National Highways has hired a network of UK universities to provide ‘assurance’ over its carbon claims for the Lower Thames Crossing (LTC). |
Leeds predicts and provides with new road23/08/2022 Councillors in Leeds have put a green spin on the new £126m East Leeds Orbital Route, which is now open to traffic. |
LTC 'greenwashing' row over claims of 80% emissions cut19/07/2022 The climate impact from traffic using the Lower Thames Crossing (LTC) will be 80% lower if the Government’s ambitions for electric vehicles are realised, National Highways has said. |
Silvertown traffic claims lead a merry Dance20/05/2022 Transport for London (TfL) has sought to distance itself from its own modelling of the impact of the Silvertown tunnel, which contradicts claims that both TfL and City Hall have made that the scheme will not increase traffic and carbon. |
Thames tunnel in new greenwashing controversy18/05/2022 As part of an ongoing investigation into developers' claims to be reducing the impact of their schemes on the climate, Chris Ames reveals new concerns about National Highways' assertions that it is cutting carbon emissions from the proposed Lower Thames Crossing. |
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