Month: April 2017

The transport secretary has said it is ‘likely’ motorists will have to pay to use the £4.4billion Lower Thames Crossing, when it eventually opens in the Gravesham countryside. Chris Grayling said it “wasn’t the first time” he had been caught in Dartford Crossing traffic after turning up an hour late

  Business chiefs and politicians from across Kent have been queuing up to offer their thoughts on today’s Lower Thames Crossing announcement. Transport secretary Chris Grayling this morning said Option C – east of Gravesend – was the government’s preferred route for the crossing. The planned route will run from

The preferred route for a new River Thames road crossing will be confirmed by the Government today. Highways England announced in January 2016 that it supported a proposed tunnel under the river, connecting Gravesend, Kent with Tilbury, Essex. The organisation, which is responsible for operating and improving England’s motorways and

THE Port of Tilbury, London’s major port and the closest significant transport operation to the proposed new motorway and tunnel, welcomes the Government’s decision today (12th April) on the Lower Thames Crossing. Charles Hammond, Chief Executive of the Forth Ports group (owner of the Port of Tilbury), welcomed the Government’s