Tolls on £2bn Silvertown tunnel - and Blackwall too

MOTORISTS will have to pay tolls to use two tunnels under the Thames in little over a year, Transport for London confirmed today.

- Ross Lydall

It said the £2 billion Silvertown tunnel would open in “summer 2025” — at which time tolls, charged at the same rate, will also be introduced on the nearby Blackwall tunnel.

TfL granted the Evening Standard access to the Silvertown tunnel site last week to show how work, which is four years behind the original opening date envisaged by then-mayor Boris Johnson, was progressing.

The tunnel-boring machine completed its “return journey” digging the two tunnels last August. The route extends from the Royal Docks on the north side of the Thames to north Greenwich, adjacent to the southbound exit from the Blackwall tunnel.

TfL’s contractors are now completing the “cut and cover” sections to link the tunnels to the existing road network.