{"id":2496,"date":"2018-11-27T14:18:21","date_gmt":"2018-11-27T14:18:21","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.michaelfallon.org.uk\/?p=2496"},"modified":"2018-11-27T14:18:21","modified_gmt":"2018-11-27T14:18:21","slug":"speed-up-lower-thames-crossing","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.michaelfallon.org.uk\/?p=2496","title":{"rendered":"Speed up Lower Thames Crossing"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Sevenoaks MP Sir Michael Fallon has today urged the Chancellor of the Exchequer to accelerate work on the Lower Thames Crossing.<\/p>\n<p>The Lower Thames Crossing, which will take away 20 per cent of the Dartford Crossing traffic, is currently scheduled to open in 2027.\u00a0 Sir Michael has urged HM Treasury to speed up purchase of the tunnelling machines and compensation for property owners by indemnifying the Highways Agency against the risk of project cancellation.<\/p>\n<p>Sir Michael said: \u201cThe Lower Thames Crossing should be considered as a national priority.\u00a0 Long queues at the Dartford Crossing are frustrating for everybody and are damaging our businesses.\u00a0 We cannot wait nine years for relief.\u201d<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.michaelfallon.org.uk\/?attachment_id=2497\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-2497\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-full wp-image-2497\" src=\"http:\/\/www.michaelfallon.org.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/11\/Lower-Thames-Crossing-Letter-to-Chancellor.jpeg\" alt=\"Lower Thames Crossing Letter to Chancellor\" width=\"3024\" height=\"4032\" srcset=\"http:\/\/www.michaelfallon.org.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/11\/Lower-Thames-Crossing-Letter-to-Chancellor.jpeg 3024w, http:\/\/www.michaelfallon.org.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/11\/Lower-Thames-Crossing-Letter-to-Chancellor-225x300.jpeg 225w, http:\/\/www.michaelfallon.org.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/11\/Lower-Thames-Crossing-Letter-to-Chancellor-768x1024.jpeg 768w, http:\/\/www.michaelfallon.org.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/11\/Lower-Thames-Crossing-Letter-to-Chancellor-1200x1600.jpeg 1200w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 709px) 85vw, (max-width: 909px) 67vw, (max-width: 1362px) 62vw, 840px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Sevenoaks MP Sir Michael Fallon has today urged the Chancellor of the Exchequer to accelerate work on the Lower Thames Crossing. The Lower Thames Crossing, which will take away 20 per cent of the Dartford Crossing traffic, is currently scheduled to open in 2027.\u00a0 Sir Michael has urged HM Treasury to speed up purchase of &hellip; <a href=\"http:\/\/www.michaelfallon.org.uk\/?p=2496\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Speed up Lower Thames Crossing&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_exactmetrics_skip_tracking":false,"_exactmetrics_sitenote_active":false,"_exactmetrics_sitenote_note":"","_exactmetrics_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[18],"tags":[896,897,561,505],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.michaelfallon.org.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2496"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.michaelfallon.org.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.michaelfallon.org.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.michaelfallon.org.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.michaelfallon.org.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=2496"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/www.michaelfallon.org.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2496\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2498,"href":"http:\/\/www.michaelfallon.org.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2496\/revisions\/2498"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.michaelfallon.org.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=2496"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.michaelfallon.org.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=2496"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.michaelfallon.org.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=2496"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}