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M11 link road protest - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
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M11 motorway - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
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The M11 link road protest was an anti-road campaign in London UK in the early 1990s Though ultimately unsuccessful the campaign together with others in the UK at that time is considered by many to have played a major role in the large-scale cutbacks in the road building programme that followed in subsequent years Background ...
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The M11 link road protest was an anti-road campaign in London, United Kingdom in the early 1990s. Though ultimately unsuccessful, the campaign was a significant factor in increasing the cost of constructing the road,[1] and together with others in the UK at that time, is considered by many to have played a major role...
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A history of the early UK road protest movement ... the green fuse/protest history ... The M11 Link Road is less than 4 miles long, & yet cost £250 million, destroyed 350 homes & acres of green space. Local people fought the road for a decade before the Dept.
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A history of the early UK road protest movement ... August 27, 1997: M11 Link Road raft action carried out by R.T.S. & the London Cycling Campaign stopped contractors constructing a bridge over the River Lee ... Twyford Down, M11 Link Road, Newbury, Stringers Common, Reclaim the Streets, 100 Days of Protest, A Corporate response...
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The protest concerned the demolition of 400 houses in Leyton, Leytonstone and Wanstead to make way for an inner-city motorway. The new road was to link the M11, opened in the early 1970s, to London's road network.
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The M11 Link Road was designed to link the southern end of the M11 motorway with the A101(M) in Hackney, ... The philosophy of the protest was passive resistance and a strict code of non-violence. An arguable weakness of the campaign was that it had no wider support. It was never going to stop the building of the road.
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This article was originally written in the summer of 1994, when we were involved in the campaign against the M11 link road in north-east London.[3] The campaign had moved into its final and, in our view, most radical phase: the occupation of Claremont Road.
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The M11 Link Road 1993-1999; In september 1993, after three public enquiries and two High Court challenges, and amidst local fury, ... The protest against this road project and the publicity it engendered played a major part in changing Government thinking and bringing about the present moratorium on road building." ;
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