Fastrack Bean Road Tunnel will be a new, 75m-long tunnel – technically an underpass because of its short length – through the chalk spine under the Bean Road between Whitecliffe (former Eastern Quarry) and Bluewater Shopping Centre.
It will connect the shopping centre to the new Whitecliffe housing development and Ebbsfleet International Railway Station. It will form part of the Fastrack bus rapid transit system within Kent Thameside.
The tunnel will house a 3.5m-wide bi-directional Fastrack busway linking Whitecliffe and Bluewater, as well as a combined footway / cycleway and footway linking the Whitecliffe and Bluewater as part of the Ebbsfleet Garden City green corridor network.
The project value is £25.5m with a construction cost budget of approximately £20.43m.
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Fastrack is a bus rapid transit system operating in the Dartford, Ebbsfleet and Gravesham area. The existing Fastrack network has been in place since 2006 and provides fast, reliable and efficient transport across Kent Thameside.
A programme of projects has been identified to deliver infrastructure to complete delivery of Fastrack in the Thameside area.
