Representation by Anthony Rae
- Date submitted
- 24 February 2023
- Submitted by
- Members of the public/businesses
I am a volunteer climate and transport campaigner, and I have reviewed the issues relating to this project on the Thames Crossing Action Group's, and the Transport Action Network's, websites. The ones that concern me particularly are that the project would: - increase traffic growth leading to more carbon emissions, and combined with the construction emissions, the total carbon emissions from the scheme would be at least 6.6 million tonnes over its lifetime making this the biggest emitting scheme ever proposed; - increase emissions from its construction by around an additional 2 million tonnes (at least, as National Highways are obscuring the real total with offsetting schemes), all within the critical fourth carbon budget when we need to achieve 68% reductions in UK carbon emissions by 2030 under our legally binding commitments under the Paris Agreement; - not solve the congestion at the Dartford Crossing, as claimed by National Highways. The Dartford Crossing would be still be over capacity if the LTC were built. So the LTC fails to meet its own objectives. - cost taxpayers at least £10 billion with a poor benefit-cost-ratio of only 1.22, so is "Low" value for money according to government guidelines. These objections are summarised from those organisations' websites but I am very familiar with the campaign against this scheme, which I support wholeheartedly. Anthony Rae