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To: Highways England
Compensation for Dartford
Gridlock caused by issues at the tunnel crossing approach hugely impacts us as a town. We are asking for Dartford to receive a small amount of the yearly £200 million Dartford Crossing revenue to invest in our economy and infastructure.
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Why is this important?
The Lower Thames Crossing has been cited as the answer to all our traffic prayers for the last decade and at a cost of £800 million! However, even if this environmentally disastrous project does go ahead, it'll be nearly another decade before it's built. Projections show it will only help ease congestion for a short period of time and is expected to reach full capacity in a few short years.
We currently experience an unacceptable level of traffic related disruption, with impacts on our businesses and health due to breathing in stationary vehicle fumes. We need effective short term and longer term solutions, such as the long promised monitoring of the Blue Star Roundabout.
This is why as a community we have come together to form the Citizens' Forum on Congestion. The Dartford Crossing is the UK's highest-earning toll road. We the undersigned are asking National Highways to pay just a small percentage of the £200 million annual revenue from the crossing charges to invest in exploring effective solutions, to boost our local economy and help with infastructure problems.
We currently experience an unacceptable level of traffic related disruption, with impacts on our businesses and health due to breathing in stationary vehicle fumes. We need effective short term and longer term solutions, such as the long promised monitoring of the Blue Star Roundabout.
This is why as a community we have come together to form the Citizens' Forum on Congestion. The Dartford Crossing is the UK's highest-earning toll road. We the undersigned are asking National Highways to pay just a small percentage of the £200 million annual revenue from the crossing charges to invest in exploring effective solutions, to boost our local economy and help with infastructure problems.
We deserve to be compensated as a community....Now is the time for us to be heard!
Written by Green Cllr Laura Edie,
On behalf of The Citizens' Forum on Congestion
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