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Thames Gateway Quiz

The Great Thames Gateway Quiz!

Think you know your Gateway from your driveway? Have a go at our quiz...

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If the quiz doesn't totally satisfy your thirst for facts, then feast your eyes on these juicy morsels [you might find some clues for the quiz too]...

  • The London Thames Gateway is home to around 500,000 people and includes 10,000 hectares of land that stretches across 8 London Boroughs
  • The steel pylons of the QEII Bridge are 84 metres high, the main span is 450 metres and the total length of the bridge is 2,872 metres
  • 145,000 cubic metres of reinforced concrete were used in the QE II bridge substructure and the approach viaducts
  • The Thames Gateway is an area of land stretching 40 miles (60 km) eastwards from East London on both sides of the River Thames and the Thames Estuary
  • The area contains some 3,150 hectares of brownfield land
  • 180,000 jobs to be created in the Thames Gateway region
  • £446m earmarked in 2003 by the ODPM [now The Department for Communities and Local Government] to deliver regeneration initiatives across the Thames Gateway including £142.7m for North Kent
  • The Department for Communities and Local Government is responsible for co-ordinating the project and development will be largely delivered by the three regional development agencies
  • Thames Gateway Strategic Partnership (TGSP), with Yvette Cooper MP in the chair, is the high-level public sector body that is responsible for delivering growth and regeneration across the Gateway
  • In 2009, Ebbsfleet will open for domestic passenger services provided by high-speed commuter trains. This service will be operated by Govia
  • Train times from St Pancras to Ebbsfleet will be just 17 minutes in 2009
  • Both the QEII bridge and parts of the Channel Tunnel were built using cement from Eastern Quarry, now one of the largest development sites in the Thames Gateway
  • The idea in the Medway Towns is to create a cohesive 'city', spanning 11 km of the River Medway, with a rejuvenated Chatham town centre at its heart
  • The Chatham Maritime site already includes a new campus for the Universities at Medway, made up of the University of Greenwich, the University of Kent and Canterbury Christ Church University
  • There can be as many as 300,000 birds present at any one time in the Kent Thames Gateway region - with many more passing through on migration
  • In Chatham, there are plans to build a cable car system across the Medway, carrying 250,000 people a year and linking the universities, Dockyard, retail outlets and stations
  • 20% of land in London Thames Gateway is non natural land use such as rail embankments and 45% is open space – just 2% is used for domestic buildings.

last updated: 04/06/2008 at 16:57
created: 30/01/2007

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