M11 Campaign

Since mid-September the lines have been drawn in north east London; On one side the DoT, and on the other, an alliance of local residents and other anti- road protesters.

Besides relocating a bottleneck(!), this project shall demolish over 350 homes and hundreds of trees and shall split communities. What's more, where do 1000+ evictees go in a city where housing demands exceed supply?

The DoT’s "comroads", NORWEST HOLST (0923 238133) and engineers WS Atkins are being given a run for our money.

The "No M11 Link Road Alliance" (Reclaim the Streets, Pagan Link, Twyford Down Alert, EF! ETC.) has obstructed work almost daily from day 1. Successful tactics have included barricading, reclaiming and rebuilding condemned properties, tree and bulldozer sitting and evicting security from sites. The tarmac tyrants are facing hugely inflated security and work costs (sounds familiar?)

A National Day of Action on the 18th October at Wanstead demonstrated massive discontent.- Details of this in the next issue of Action Update.

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