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If motorways aren't the right solution to Blackheath's transport problems, why do we think they are the right solution to Thamesmead's?https://alexgrant.me/wp-content/uploads/2014/12/cover-300x258.jpgcover-300x258The Centre for London's recent report, calling on Boris Johnson to get on with building road crossings without delay, was a missed opportunityhttps://alexgrant.me/wp-content/uploads/2014/12/capture.jpgCaptureIn terms of the split between car use and public transport, London still lags behind other European capital cities. Why make things worse?https://alexgrant.me/wp-content/uploads/2014/12/blackheath-village-2013.jpgBlackheath Village 2013Blackheath Village: Ringway One would have put a six-lane motorway here had it not been stopped by a fierce campaign by articulate locals in the 1970s. If motorways aren't the right solution to Blackheath's transport problems, why do we think they are the right solution to Thamesmead's?https://alexgrant.me/wp-content/uploads/2014/12/thames-estuary-airport-007.jpgThames-estuary-airport-007The proposed Thames Estuary Airport may not have been popular locally, but it would have brought new public transport infrastructure that will now be more difficult to securehttps://alexgrant.me/wp-content/uploads/2014/12/bremen.jpgbremenIn cities like Bremen, car-sharing schemes and excellent public transport is reducing car ownership - and car use. Why can't we do the same in London?https://alexgrant.me/wp-content/uploads/2014/12/1404193004_thamesgatewaybridge-large.jpg1404193004_thamesgatewaybridge-largeThis CGI of the Gallions Reach bridge may look breathtaking, but in reality it would require mile-long ramps at either end to achieve the necessary 50-metre clearance above the Thames: hardly conducive to walking or cyclinghttps://alexgrant.me/wp-content/uploads/2014/12/ip1783066dartford-crossing.jpgip1783066dartford-crossingCars coming up to the toll gates at the Dartford Crossing. Despite increases in tolls for long-distance users, hefty discounts for local drivers encourage unnecessary journeys and add to the tailbacks https://alexgrant.me/wp-content/uploads/2014/12/origin-destination-map.jpgorigin-destination mapAs this map shows, many car trips through the Blackwall Tunnel aren't local - they start much further afield than Greenwich https://alexgrant.me/wp-content/uploads/2014/12/graphic-to-show-junction-layout-on-the-north-side.jpgGraphic to show junction layout on the north sideThe new slip roads that the Silvertown Tunnel would require2025-04-29T18:01:41+00:00monthlyhttps://alexgrant.me/2016/06/13/a-month-on-sadiq-khans-victory-in-london-no-longer-looks-mould-breaking-in-fact-its-a-welcome-return-to-politics-as-usual/https://alexgrant.me/wp-content/uploads/2016/06/screenshot-2025-03-21-133407.jpgScreenshot 2025-03-21 1334072025-03-21T13:36:25+00:00monthlyhttps://alexgrant.me/2025/03/06/jim-scouse-how-a-mysterious-housemaster-embodied-good-diplomacy/https://alexgrant.me/wp-content/uploads/2025/03/ic-1990.jpgIC 1990https://alexgrant.me/wp-content/uploads/2025/03/ic-1991.jpgIC 19912025-05-10T14:55:19+00:00monthlyhttps://alexgrant.me/2019/06/21/the-rory-stewart-i-knew-why-it-was-inevitable-hed-be-knocked-out-of-the-tory-leadership-contest/https://alexgrant.me/wp-content/uploads/2019/06/rory-stewart.jpgRory Stewart2024-09-19T11:37:46+00:00monthlyhttps://alexgrant.me/2019/07/28/why-the-new-london-bridge-station-doesnt-deserve-to-win-the-stirling-prize/https://alexgrant.me/wp-content/uploads/2019/07/cimg3366.jpgCIMG3366https://alexgrant.me/wp-content/uploads/2019/07/cimg3364.jpgCIMG3364https://alexgrant.me/wp-content/uploads/2019/07/cimg2539.jpgCIMG2539https://alexgrant.me/wp-content/uploads/2019/07/cimg2548.jpgCIMG2548https://alexgrant.me/wp-content/uploads/2019/07/cimg2554.jpgCIMG2554https://alexgrant.me/wp-content/uploads/2019/07/cimg2556.jpgCIMG2556https://alexgrant.me/wp-content/uploads/2019/07/cimg3939.jpgCIMG3939https://alexgrant.me/wp-content/uploads/2019/07/cimg3749.jpgCIMG3749https://alexgrant.me/wp-content/uploads/2019/07/cimg3737.jpgCIMG3737https://alexgrant.me/wp-content/uploads/2019/07/cimg3361.jpgCIMG33612024-09-09T00:48:13+00:00monthlyhttps://alexgrant.me/2024/07/03/the-forgotten-casualties-of-this-election-the-lgbt-mps-who-wont-be-coming-back/https://alexgrant.me/wp-content/uploads/2024/07/image.pngimage2024-08-20T13:43:39+00:00monthlyhttps://alexgrant.me/2015/04/20/eight-media-myths-about-the-2015-election-and-why-they-are-wrong/https://alexgrant.me/wp-content/uploads/2015/04/election-picture-2.jpgelection picture 2https://alexgrant.me/wp-content/uploads/2015/04/election-picture.jpgelection picture2024-06-05T21:50:46+00:00monthlyhttps://alexgrant.me/2022/07/13/liz-truss-can-be-beaten-i-should-know-ive-defeated-her-twice/https://alexgrant.me/wp-content/uploads/2022/10/20220729_125405006.jpg20220729_125405006https://alexgrant.me/wp-content/uploads/2022/10/20220729_131327012.jpg20220729_131327012https://alexgrant.me/wp-content/uploads/2022/10/20220729_125337949.jpg20220729_125337949https://alexgrant.me/wp-content/uploads/2022/10/20220729_125323101.jpg20220729_125323101https://alexgrant.me/wp-content/uploads/2022/10/20220729_125253287.jpg20220729_125253287https://alexgrant.me/wp-content/uploads/2022/10/20220729_125144014.jpg20220729_125144014https://alexgrant.me/wp-content/uploads/2022/10/20220729_125226757.jpg20220729_125226757https://alexgrant.me/wp-content/uploads/2022/10/20220729_125126945.jpg20220729_125126945https://alexgrant.me/wp-content/uploads/2022/07/image.pngimage2024-04-16T12:05:57+00:00monthlyhttps://alexgrant.me/2014/09/16/memo-to-the-left-1-nationalism-should-always-be-viewed-with-suspicion-2-press-freedom-needs-to-be-fought-for-3-and-an-independence-referendum-is-not-a-conference-workshop/https://alexgrant.me/wp-content/uploads/2014/09/1410740176479_wps_33_pro_independence_yes_camp.jpgPro-independence "Yes" campaigners stage2024-02-29T13:38:29+00:00monthlyhttps://alexgrant.me/2015/05/02/in-the-last-days-of-the-election-campaign-labour-should-talk-about-three-things-housing-housing-and-housing/https://alexgrant.me/wp-content/uploads/2015/05/cimg0514.jpgCIMG0514"Surplus" council housing often ends up like this: empty, boarded up and then sold off for less than its true value. 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Formal - maybe even a little dull - but a sensible building that is light years away from the early 1970s concrete structure it replacedhttps://alexgrant.me/wp-content/uploads/2014/11/cimg4213.jpgCIMG4213Greenwich Free School's pedestrian new buildings. The handsome 1930s Adair House has been restored but is not improved by the extensions built on two sides, which look like cheap blocks of flats thrown up by a slum landlordhttps://alexgrant.me/wp-content/uploads/2014/11/john-roan-lower-school-before-demolition.jpgJohn Roan lower school before demolitionThe former Westcombe Park Road building, demolished in 2012. Informal compositions like this can work- as long as the classrooms are big enough, the corridors are more than a few feet wide, and the ceilings are not oppressively low https://alexgrant.me/wp-content/uploads/2014/11/john-roan-upper-school-before-refurb-2012.jpgJohn Roan upper school before refurb 2012The 1928 building on Maze Hill: a fine building across the Road from Greenwich Park that was listed in 2010. But it had been unloved and poorly-maintained for decadeshttps://alexgrant.me/wp-content/uploads/2014/11/cimg4161.jpgCIMG4161The Clocktower at Maze Hill: finally about to start telling the right timehttps://alexgrant.me/wp-content/uploads/2014/11/wp-building-nearing-completion.jpgWP building nearing completionThe Westcombe Park Road building nearing completionhttps://alexgrant.me/wp-content/uploads/2014/11/gasholder.jpgGasholderThe notorious Peninsula gasholderhttps://alexgrant.me/wp-content/uploads/2014/11/cimg4133.jpgCIMG4133https://alexgrant.me/wp-content/uploads/2014/11/cimg4134.jpgCIMG41342021-01-22T18:49:23+00:00monthlyhttps://alexgrant.me/2014/10/16/what-happens-when-politicians-and-developers-meet-behind-closed-doors-and-why-unites-wrong-to-call-the-meetings-off/https://alexgrant.me/wp-content/uploads/2014/10/mipim.jpgMIPIMhttps://alexgrant.me/wp-content/uploads/2014/10/img-20141007-00514.jpgIMG-20141007-00514...and the estate today, awaiting 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development pressurehttps://alexgrant.me/wp-content/uploads/2014/12/38-wellington-street.jpg38 wellington streetThe new block of flats that will soon replace the Woolwich Grand Theatrehttps://alexgrant.me/wp-content/uploads/2014/12/spencer.jpgSpencerSpencer Drury (centre) is a thoroughly decent man, but he''ll struggle to unseat Clive Efford in Eltham next Mayhttps://alexgrant.me/wp-content/uploads/2014/12/matt-p.jpgMatt PMatthew Pennycook will be a great new MP for Greenwich and Woolwich, possibly for decades to comehttps://alexgrant.me/wp-content/uploads/2014/12/woolwich-town-hall.jpgWoolwich town hallWoolwich Town Hall: still one of my favourite buildings despite my mixed memories of what went on therehttps://alexgrant.me/wp-content/uploads/2014/12/crossrail-two.pngCrossrail TwoCrossrail Two won't serve Greenwich - but Crossrail lines Three or Four may need tohttps://alexgrant.me/wp-content/uploads/2014/12/london-bridge-station.jpgLondon Bridge stationThe rebuilding of London Bridge station is long overdue - but it will in fact make Greenwich's rail connections worst, in the medium term at leasthttps://alexgrant.me/wp-content/uploads/2014/12/white-horse-pub.jpgwhite-horse-pubIncredibly, a developer wants to knock down this old Gin Palace in Charlton and replace it...https://alexgrant.me/wp-content/uploads/2014/12/pub-replacement.jpgpub-replacement... with 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No blood was spilt.2020-01-17T17:31:50+00:00monthlyhttps://alexgrant.me/2019/06/28/people-get-ready-can-labour-ever-get-to-implement-its-economic-vision/https://alexgrant.me/wp-content/uploads/2019/06/guinan-cover.jpgGuinan cover2019-12-29T19:03:07+00:00monthlyhttps://alexgrant.me/2014/06/25/and-who-is-to-blame-for-this-carbuncle-er-me-actually/https://alexgrant.me/wp-content/uploads/2014/06/img00217-20111102-0944.jpgIMG00217-20111102-0944The Post Office being demolished, 2011https://alexgrant.me/wp-content/uploads/2014/06/img-20140424-00910.jpgIMG-20140424-00910The stairs up to the new pedestrian walkway - the consequences of a two-storey car park that could not go undergroundhttps://alexgrant.me/wp-content/uploads/2014/06/woolwich-town-hall.jpgWoolwich Town HallFor the time bring, there is a great view of Woolwich Town Hall's clocktower from Woolwich Common - but this is likely to disappear once the final phase of Woolwich Central is built.https://alexgrant.me/wp-content/uploads/2014/06/img00001-20121108-0857.jpgIMG00001-20121108-0857The site in summer 2012, with construction almost completehttps://alexgrant.me/wp-content/uploads/2014/06/img-20140317-00528.jpgIMG-20140317-00528https://alexgrant.me/wp-content/uploads/2014/06/cimg2257.jpgCIMG2257Woolwich Central from General Gordon Square. The 1860s terrace on the right-hand side faces an uncertain futurehttps://alexgrant.me/wp-content/uploads/2014/06/original-plans-for-woolwich-central.jpgOriginal plans for Woolwich centralWhat might have been - an early proposal sketch (looking north up Woolwich New Road) showing trees, hanging gardens, and front doors facing onto the street.https://alexgrant.me/wp-content/uploads/2014/06/013.jpg013Where the Victorian Post Office and Sorting Office once stood there was supposed to be a 26-storey tower. Instead there's an oddly purposeless open space - are those hillocks there to be climbed, or to hide behind?https://alexgrant.me/wp-content/uploads/2014/06/012.jpg012More empty shop units on the way to Tesco's entrance. They do not signal that this is a place to linger in after the shopping's donehttps://alexgrant.me/wp-content/uploads/2014/06/010.jpg010Two years after it was built, there is still an empty shop unit on the corner of the site right by Woolwich New Road 2019-10-10T15:01:08+00:00monthlyhttps://alexgrant.me/2017/07/06/northampton-a-town-that-needs-to-grow-up-and-become-a-city/https://alexgrant.me/wp-content/uploads/2017/07/cimg8606.jpgCIMG8606https://alexgrant.me/wp-content/uploads/2017/07/cimg8616.jpgCIMG8616https://alexgrant.me/wp-content/uploads/2017/07/cimg36071.jpgCIMG3607https://alexgrant.me/wp-content/uploads/2017/07/cimg3637.jpgCIMG3637https://alexgrant.me/wp-content/uploads/2017/07/cimg3636.jpgCIMG3636https://alexgrant.me/wp-content/uploads/2017/07/cimg8510.jpgCIMG8510https://alexgrant.me/wp-content/uploads/2017/07/cimg8421.jpgCIMG8421https://alexgrant.me/wp-content/uploads/2017/07/cimg3581.jpgCIMG3581https://alexgrant.me/wp-content/uploads/2017/07/cimg3640.jpgCIMG3640https://alexgrant.me/wp-content/uploads/2017/07/cimg8403.jpgCIMG84032019-10-08T10:12:22+00:00monthlyhttps://alexgrant.me/2014/11/18/a-garden-bridge-no-thank-you-joanna-lumley-london-is-bosky-enough-already/https://alexgrant.me/wp-content/uploads/2014/11/heatherwick_bridge_front_900x502.jpgHeatherwick_bridge_front_900x502https://alexgrant.me/wp-content/uploads/2014/11/view_east_from_waterloo_bridge.jpgView_east_from_Waterloo_BridgeThis view of St Paul's from Waterloo Bridge would be compromised - perhaps fatally - by the bridge's trees up to 15 metres highhttps://alexgrant.me/wp-content/uploads/2014/11/diana-fountain.jpgDiana fountainhttps://alexgrant.me/wp-content/uploads/2014/11/40752184_diana300245_getty5b55d.jpg40752184_diana300245_getty5b55dhttps://alexgrant.me/wp-content/uploads/2014/11/princess-diana-flame-of-liberty-place-alma-paris-2.jpgPrincess-Diana-Flame-of-Liberty-Place-Alma-Paris-2https://alexgrant.me/wp-content/uploads/2014/11/812282_730008_canaletto_front.jpg812282_730008_canaletto_frontCanaletto's views of the Thames of the 1740s show that a city, and its river, can be beautiful and majestic without the need for any greeneryhttps://alexgrant.me/wp-content/uploads/2014/11/img-20140307-00429.jpgIMG-20140307-00429https://alexgrant.me/wp-content/uploads/2014/11/img-20140307-00426.jpgIMG-20140307-00426https://alexgrant.me/wp-content/uploads/2014/11/img-20140307-00432.jpgIMG-20140307-00432https://alexgrant.me/wp-content/uploads/2014/11/img-20140307-00424.jpgIMG-20140307-004242019-08-30T12:46:43+00:00monthlyhttps://alexgrant.me/2015/05/11/complacent-patronising-and-stuck-in-the-past-labours-2015-campaign-was-doomed-from-the-start/https://alexgrant.me/wp-content/uploads/2015/05/capture.jpgCapture2019-07-29T17:31:29+00:00monthlyhttps://alexgrant.me/2018/07/21/dont-believe-what-donald-trump-says-about-sweden-immigration-works-well-there/https://alexgrant.me/wp-content/uploads/2018/07/cimg4120.jpgCIMG4120https://alexgrant.me/wp-content/uploads/2018/07/20180417_095206.jpg20180417_095206https://alexgrant.me/wp-content/uploads/2018/07/cimg4170.jpgCIMG4170https://alexgrant.me/wp-content/uploads/2018/07/cimg4142.jpgCIMG4142https://alexgrant.me/wp-content/uploads/2018/07/cimg4202.jpgCIMG42022018-10-15T11:39:18+00:00monthlyhttps://alexgrant.me/2014/09/10/will-len-mccluskey-ever-shut-up-bashing-the-lib-dems-wont-win-the-election-for-labour/https://alexgrant.me/wp-content/uploads/2014/09/len-mccluskey.jpgLen McCluskey2018-07-02T20:24:53+00:00monthlyhttps://alexgrant.me/2015/09/11/jeremy-corbyn-as-labour-leader-may-be-frightening-indeed-but-corbyn-as-party-martyr-would-be-even-worse/https://alexgrant.me/wp-content/uploads/2015/09/corbyn.jpgCorbyn2018-06-23T10:30:08+00:00monthlyhttps://alexgrant.me/2015/05/25/another-reason-why-labours-35-strategy-was-so-wrong-the-mysterious-disappearance-of-the-three-way-marginal/https://alexgrant.me/wp-content/uploads/2015/05/3wm-chart1.png3WM charthttps://alexgrant.me/wp-content/uploads/2015/05/3wm-chart.png3WM charthttps://alexgrant.me/wp-content/uploads/2015/05/3wm-chart.jpg3WM charthttps://alexgrant.me/wp-content/uploads/2015/05/thurrock-bar-chart.jpgThurrock bar chartThurrock was almost a dead heat between the Conservatives, Labour and UKIP in 2015. 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The new rooves and modern dormer windows seen here indicate that these buildings have been completely redeveloped behind retained facadeshttps://alexgrant.me/wp-content/uploads/2015/09/cimg3843.jpgCIMG3843https://alexgrant.me/wp-content/uploads/2015/09/cimg3867.jpgCIMG38672024-08-14T18:16:31+00:00monthlyhttps://alexgrant.me/2015/06/03/greenwich-peninsula-how-a-council-own-goal-took-the-heat-off-greedy-developers-and-the-tories-who-let-them-get-away-with-it/2015-06-05T18:15:29+00:00monthlyhttps://alexgrant.me/2014/09/24/theres-no-need-for-labour-to-be-apologetic-about-a-mansion-tax/https://alexgrant.me/wp-content/uploads/2014/09/cimg1494.jpgCIMG14942014-10-20T16:28:52+00:00monthlyhttps://alexgrant.me/2014/10/14/seven-months-before-an-election-labour-must-inspire-surprise-and-provoke-its-supporters-not-patronise-them/https://alexgrant.me/wp-content/uploads/2014/10/labour-facebook.jpgLabour Facebook2014-10-16T12:01:12+00:00monthlyhttps://alexgrant.me/2014/09/27/the-new-university-faculty-is-the-best-thing-built-in-greenwich-for-decades-critics-should-be-careful-what-they-wish-for/https://alexgrant.me/wp-content/uploads/2014/09/tower-on-trafalgar-road.jpgTower on Trafalgar RoadThe proposed eight-storey hotel proposed to take the place of Hardy's on Trafalgar Road: not an April Fool, it turned outhttps://alexgrant.me/wp-content/uploads/2014/09/img-20140131-00214.jpgIMG-20140131-00214https://alexgrant.me/wp-content/uploads/2014/09/cimg3341.jpgCIMG3341https://alexgrant.me/wp-content/uploads/2014/09/cimg3304.jpgCIMG3304https://alexgrant.me/wp-content/uploads/2014/09/creekroad-bptw.jpgCreekRoad BPTWhttps://alexgrant.me/wp-content/uploads/2014/09/bardsley-lane-2007.jpgBardsley Lane 2007https://alexgrant.me/wp-content/uploads/2014/09/cimg32831.jpgCIMG3283https://alexgrant.me/wp-content/uploads/2014/09/img-20140712-00102.jpgIMG-20140712-00102https://alexgrant.me/wp-content/uploads/2014/09/cimg3323.jpgCIMG3323https://alexgrant.me/wp-content/uploads/2014/09/cimg3327.jpgCIMG33272015-02-27T12:04:17+00:00monthlyhttps://alexgrant.me/2014/09/09/carbuncle-cup-the-end-of-localism/2014-09-23T10:01:36+00:00monthlyhttps://alexgrant.me/2014/06/18/rising-to-the-occasion-the-architecture-of-election-counts/https://alexgrant.me/wp-content/uploads/2014/06/troxy.jpgTower Hamlets Election Count at the TroxyThe Troxyhttps://alexgrant.me/wp-content/uploads/2014/06/election-count.jpgelection countVictorious Conservative candidate Robert Jenrick at the Newark by-election count. I'm more interested in the brick arches behind him to be honest.2014-09-09T22:15:21+00:00monthlyhttps://alexgrant.medaily1.02025-08-19T18:56:14+00:00