New Lower Thames Crossing Route Announced
Location/Option C Route
The route for the new multi-billion pound Lower Thames Crossing between Essex and Kent has been announced as Option C (pictured) which will connect Tilbury and Gravesend in Kent. Despite opposition from Havering Council, Gravesham Council and the Upminster & Cranham Residents’ Association, the route is set to run from the end of the M2 near Rochester, cross the river to the east of Gravesend and join the M25 between junctions 29 and 30 in Essex.
At the proposed M25 junction, this will impact on Ockendon Road (near properties at Manor And Hall Farms, Denises Cottages, Bridge Cottages and Grafton). The surrounding area to the proposed junction includes the North Ockendon and Cranham Conservation areas. The Highways Agency say that the junction will be a ‘free flow’ road comprising of slip roads to the north and south.
The tunnel and route has been estimated to cost between £4.3 billion and £5.9 billion. It is also planned to be a Toll Road.
More information on the Lower Thames Crossing HERE.
See the Havering Council response to the consultation, which opposed Option C, as did the Residents’ Association, in favour of an additional Crossing by the existing Dartford Bridge is HERE.
More to follow…
You got it all wrong again you should have used the A130 already built straight across the Thames
Lorries coming down from the docks at Felixstowe and heading for. Dover would use the A12 come off at Chelmsford down the A130 across the river then on to Dover easing off the traffic on the M25 and the Dartford bridge
Find another route your going to destroy Thurrock make more pollution and its only going to carry 14% of the traffic of the m25
Great job … choose the option that has the worst environmental impact whilst also being incapable of handling the predicted growth in the volume of traffic. A complete tragedy!