Have your say on London's budget for 2022–23

The Mayor is now having to ask us to prevent the collapse of TfL, so why is he spending £MILLIONS of its budget on a road tunnel that’s been proven to INCREASE toxic air?

I ask for a full amount from The Mayor for the cancellation of Silvertown Tunnel.

I support the Green Party motions for:

-A new resident empowerment fund, to help more Londoners have a say over their homes and local areas

-A fund to support the thousands of Londoners with dangerous cladding facing worry and expense

-More investment in accessible public toilets and safe pedestrian crossings on major roads

Thank you

I want to know how much will be saved by scrapping the Silvertown Tunnel. Sadiq Khan wants to increase our Council tax and I’m prepared for a % of that to go towards cancellation of this ill-conceived tunnel. He is ‘playing’ with my contributions & therefore I have a right to ask for full transparency on cost of cancellation and to find a greener way to travel. This is in the public interest.
Also in the public interest, especially for the people of Newham and Greenwich, is the right to clean air. This new tunnel will draw more HGVs to the area. There are business enterprise zones either side of tunnel entrances and let’s be clear, the businesses already established there and which want to expand are dirty waste sites (Sivyer and RMS, companies which have no respect for those living nearby). The GLA wants also to increase housing in these areas but how can residential be constructed right next to such industries?
Sadiq Khan must go back to the drawing board and truly fight for clean air.

I support the Green Party's priorities -

* A resident empowerment fund - to help more Londoners have a say over their homes and local areas

* A fund to support the thousands of Londoners with dangerous cladding facing worry and expense (this would help people I know personally so means a lot to me)

* Details of the potential cancellation cost of the Silvertown Road Tunnel to be released, to enable a debate about this project during the final budget meeting

* More investment in accessible public toilets and safe pedestrian crossings on major roads

I believe these would really move the city forward in a fair and safe way for all.

The Silvertown tunnel has questionable benefits and leads to more pollution and maintaining car ownership (Mayor recently said 27% car journey reduction needed), so I believe it should be cancelled.

Dangerous cladding removal must be expedited.

London is still a car centric city, cycle lanes great in some places and terrible in others, much work urgently required here to massively increase and improve cycle paths.

I would like to see:
* A resident empowerment fund - to help more Londoners have a say over their homes and local areas
* A fund to support the thousands of Londoners with dangerous cladding facing worry and expense
* Details of the potential cancellation cost of the Silvertown Road Tunnel to be released, to enable a debate about this project during the final budget meeting
* More investment in accessible public toilets and safe pedestrian crossings on major roads
These are all important advances in the progress towards a sustainable, equitable London.

The Silvertown Tunnel is unnecessary and will make the air dirtier in the worst polluted boroughs in London.

Free up the budget to further invest in public transport.

We really need to know the true costs of Silvertown Tunnel cancellation, so that it can be proposed and budgeted for. But the reality is that it costs us far more than money. Costs like children’s health cannot be measured financially. Adding a new road for HGVs into the highly polluted borough’s of Greenwich and Newham has a health cost. Adding carbon intensive building project for fossil fuel vehicles has a cost in terms of global warming. Spending £2.2bn making the air quality and carbon emissions worse is irresponsible when we desperately need new river crossing for cargo bikes, cyclists and active travel, and well as money spent supporting our precious public transport. Here in Greenwich and across the river in Newham there is huge cross party support for scrapping the Silvertown Tunnel so well done to Greens for holding the Mayor to account on climate and air quality. He talks the talk, he must be made to walk the walk.

Cancel Silvertown Tunnel, and as a first step release the approximate costs of cancellation so that LA members are able to perform their democratic duty on London's budget. That's local democracy - we elected them to carry out their job of scrutiny of the Mayor's decisions, and they must be given the info to do this!
Beware the sunk costs fallacy! However steep the cancellation costs they will be a lot less than the cost of continuing with the build, with all the negative consequences for London's climate targets and for people in east and south-east London. Newham is already one of the most polluted boroughs; the tunnel's induced traffic and bigger HGVs will completely jam already congested feeder roads in all nearby boroughs, bringing extra pollution past homes and schools. Why is it always diverse populations who get exposed to bad air?

Instead, put money into the things the Mayor says he cares about, like cross-river provision for cyclists, cargo bikes and pedestrians. Cargo bikes can't cross the river at all and cyclists have to carry their bikes up and down the stairs at Greenwich foot tunnel because the lifts never work - so lots of them can't cross either. So far he's done the exact opposite of what he says, committing £2.2bn of our money to a 1970s style road tunnel and a tiny fraction of that amount to clean air, cycling etc.

The Mayor is always demanding courageous climate and clean air action of others. It's time he walked the walk. If he does, he'll get big credit for it.

The Resident Empowerment Fund is such a crucial initiative in a city where rents are skyrocketing and an increasing number of people are at risk of falling into dire housing situations. People living in council flats should not be at the mercy of the whims of private developers deciding on the profitability of people's living situation. Furthermore, tragedies like Grenfell have shown the need to place people and communities first before profit incentives. The race to the bottom that is the housing crisis currently raging in London must be addressed. Furthermore, the Police should be defunded and money invested into the communities, most crime comes from poverty, and increasing police budgets while decreasing all over social spending only increases crime and violence. Increasing the police budgets further is such a ridiculous idea that only caters to the right-wing fantasies of law and order which is a thinly veiled disguise for control and uniformity.

I would like to see the Silver Town tunnel project scrapped and the money used to increase investment in cycle lanes and cycling infrastructure such as cycle hangers. It should be a rule that no road infrastructure in London should be built that does not have provision for cycling. There is a serious shortage of secure on street parking for cycles in London, and this together with the fact that many Londoners do not have the space to keep a bike at home, is one of the factors deterring people from owning and using a bike

It's so important that this budget include a Resident empowerment fund and help for cladding victims if we ever want a city that places people and communities first. It's people and community that make this place what it is, and we can't continue to live somewhere the prioritises pritvate developers and filling their pockets before its own vulnerable residents.

More enforcement of 20mph speed limits through policing and more speed cameras. There are so many dangerous drivers on the roads
A new resident empowerment fund to help more Londoners have a say over their homes and local areas
A fund to support the thousands of Londoners with dangerous cladding facing worry and expense
Details of the potential cancellation cost of the Silvertown Road Tunnel to be released, to enable a debate about this project during the final budget meeting.
How can the Mayor talk credibly about decarbonising the city while planning the silvertown tunnel which will bring in so much polluting traffic?
More investment in accessible public toilets and safe pedestrian crossings on major roads

Now more than ever, we need to be sure that public money is being well spent, and decisions are transparent. TfL is in serious funding trouble and yet a vast amount is planned to be spent on the Silvertown Tunnel project which is highly controversial because it will worsen already dangerous air pollution and also encourage car travel and greenhouse gas emissions.
There is no point in throwing good money after bad by continuing with this unpopular and counterproductive project. Please publish details of the potential cancellation cost so a full open debate can be held.

To the office of the mayor.

I support the Green Party the inclusion of the proposed amendments listed below.

A new resident empowerment fund to help more Londoners have a say over their homes and local areas.

A fund to support the thousands of Londoners with dangerous cladding facing worry and expense.

Details of the potential cancellation cost of the Silvertown Road Tunnel to be released, to enable a debate about this project during the final budget meeting.

More investment in accessible public toilets and safe pedestrian crossings on major roads.

Please include them in the budget.

Regards

Paul

I support:
A new resident empowerment fund to help more Londoners have a say over their homes and local areas.

A fund to support the thousands of Londoners with dangerous cladding facing worry and expense.

Details of the potential cancellation cost of the Silvertown Road Tunnel to be released, to enable a debate about this project during the final budget meeting.

More investment in accessible public toilets and safe pedestrian crossings on major roads. As a parent this has been an issue for years. It’s nearly impossible to find safe, clean toilet facilities that I can access with a pushchair.

As a manager of couriers at a central London courier company, which provides London's citizens and businesses with an essential service, I ask that the Mayor recognise that my workers have the right to access publicly provided toilets. Access to free toilets is something that most people take for granted but is not available to my workers, causing them discomfort and humiliation daily. Even though my workers can use the toilets at our offices, it is not always possible for my workers to get anywhere near our offices during their working day. I am sure that workers in other sectors such as drivers of taxis & minicabs, builders and others would also welcome access to free toilets.

I support the Green Party budget amendments. Namely:

• A new resident empowerment fund to help more Londoners have a say over their homes and local areas
•A fund to support the thousands of Londoners with dangerous cladding facing worry and expense
•Details of the potential cancellation cost of the Silvertown Road Tunnel to be released, to enable a debate about this project during the final budget meeting
•More investment in accessible public toilets and safe pedestrian crossings on major roads

Please keep these amendments within the budget.

Kind regards,

Ben