JOHNSON ACCUSED OF SIDELINING GREEN PRIORITIES OVER CAPITAL TUNNEL PLAN

摘要

London mayor Boris Johnson's plans to build a road tunnel connecting Greenwich Peninsula to Silvertown in east London have been slammed by the chair of the London Assembly's Environment Committee. Darren Johnson, who is also a Green Party councillor, said Johnson "can't claim that air pollution or climate change are a priority" while proposing this "traffic-generating road". The tunnel will have a capacity of 2,400 vehicles an hour, in both directions, and is to ease congestion of the nearby Blackwall and Rotherhithe tunnels.