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What Lower Thames Crossing bosses want to see in contractors’ bids Contractors bidding for work on the UK’s biggest roads job must embrace modularisation and demonstrate ways to save time and cost on the Lower Thames Crossing project. Worth a combined £1.9bn, the Roads North contract covers the route from 1km north of the northern tunnel entrance to Junction 29 of the M25, while the Kent Roads job involves design and build for the part of the route from the A2/M2 corridor to 1km south of the southern tunnel entrance. Speaking to NCE ahead of the latest contracts launch, Lower Thames Cro...

1 April 2021 For more than 65 years the Dartford Crossing has stood as the only crossing between Kent and Essex, a critical link carrying vital food, goods and services between the manufacturing centres, ports, and distribution hubs of the South East, Midlands and North of England. It is designed for 135,000 vehicles a day, but it now often sees 180,000 a day use it, leading to long delays which businesses across the country say act as a barrier to trade and jobs. The Lower Thames Crossing will improve journeys by almost doubling road capacity across the River Thames east of London. The two s...

By Jordan Marshall2021-04-01T09:36:00+01:00 Firms have until middle of next month to register interest in mammoth schemes Highways England has started the race for two deals worth £1.9bn for approach roads to the new Lower Thames Crossing. The design and build contract for roads on the Kent side of the river is worth £600m, with those for the Essex side valued at £1.3bn. Firms have until the middle of next month to register their interest in the work The contract for the Kent side of the tunnel includes connecting the A2/M2 corridor via a multi-level junction close to the tunnel’s sout...

The Thames River is expected to rise enough to flood the sidewalk along the river in downtown Chatham this weekend.

Officials with the Lower Thames Valley Conservation Authority say some provincial government decisions have created challenges in meeting its tree-planting…