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Blackwall traffic improves since Silvertown Tunnel opening: The number of traffic jams at the Blackwall Tunnel has been slashed in the first three months after ...
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Blackwall traffic improves since Silvertown Tunnel opening: The number of traffic jams at the Blackwall Tunnel has been slashed in the first three months after ...
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Blackwall traffic improves since Silvertown Tunnel opening: The number of traffic jams at the Blackwall Tunnel has been slashed in the first three months after ...
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Blackwall traffic improves since Silvertown Tunnel opening: The number of traffic jams at the Blackwall Tunnel has been slashed in the first three months after ...
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Blackwall traffic improves since Silvertown Tunnel opening: The number of traffic jams at the Blackwall Tunnel has been slashed in the first three months after ...
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Blackwall traffic improves since Silvertown Tunnel opening: The number of traffic jams at the Blackwall Tunnel has been slashed in the first three months after ...
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How much Blackwall and Silvertown tunnel now cost as new price change begins: Tunnel charges increased this week
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‘It is costing taxpayers on average £5,400 to ferry just 51 cyclists a day through the Silvertown Tunnel’
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Silvertown Tunnel fees set to rise as TfL says it has been success: The Silvertown tunnel fee at peak times will go up by 20p later this year but since opening a ...
southwarknews.co.uk/news/community/silvertown-tunnel-fees-set-to-rise-as-tfl-says-it-has-been-success/

How much Silvertown and Blackwall tunnel charges are set to increase in September
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Silvertown Tunnel links with free DLR and TfL buses extended: TfL has extended free DLR and bus travel linked to the Silvertown Tunnel until May 26, 2026 ...
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SL4, 108 and 129 Silvertown Tunnel buses free until May: Free travel on Silvertown Tunnel bus routes SL4, 108, and 129 has been extended by seven weeks.
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TfL extends free London bus trial on three routes by seven weeks: Bus travel across Silvertown and Blackwall tunnels will remain free until May 26
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TfL confirms most common reason for cancelling Silvertown Tunnel fines: Fines issued for crossing Blackwall and Silvertown tunnels without paying the toll have ...
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London congestion charge and Blackwall and Silvertown tunnel tolls to rise each year until 2030
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Driver 'blind' to TfL signs appeals against £180 fines for failing to pay Silvertown and Blackwall tolls
standard.co.uk/news/transport/silvertown-blackwall-tunnel-tolls-ps180-appeal-van-driver-tfl-pcn-b1257095.html
Huge fire shuts Blackwall tunnel as dramatic video shows smoke billowing into sky
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Revealed: 500,000 penalty tickets for drivers who failed to pay Silvertown and Blackwall tunnel tolls
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Thousands of Kent drivers fined for not paying new tunnel tolls: A freedom of information request has revealed thousands of Kent drivers have been penalised for ...
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Drivers use Woolwich Ferry to cross Thames and avoid tunnel tolls: About 1,800 extra vehicles are using the Woolwich Ferry daily, after the Silvertown Tunnel ...
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TfL says Silvertown tunnel reduces Blackwall tunnel traffic: Traffic levels around the Silvertown tunnel dropped in the first month after it opened ...
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TfL says Silvertown Tunnel improves bus 108 wait times: The Silvertown Tunnel has improved the reliability of a cross-river bus service, Transport for London has ...
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Silvertown tunnel: cyclists stage mass protest over bike ban: Around 1,000 cyclists reportedly rode through the Silvertown tunnel on Friday night (April 25) amid ...
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‘Polluting’ Silvertown tunnel is already out of date despite just opening, say campaigners
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Key FactsCampaigners warn Silvertown Tunnel is outdated
Apr 7, 2025 · Reading time: ~45 sec.
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- Victoria Rance of the Stop the Silvertown Tunnel Coalition calls the £2bn technology outdated and warns of health damage lasting decades.
- Sadiq Khan and TfL expect less congestion and air pollution, alongside better transport links through zero-emission buses.
- Opponents fear increased traffic and pollution could worsen health in some of the country’s most deprived boroughs.
- Rance wants the tunnel repurposed for public transport and bicycles rather than used for motor traffic.
As cities across Europe invest in public transport or active travel – real green transport infrastructure – we are left with what is effectively 1970s technology … a highly polluting road tunnel that will be out of date the moment it opens.— Victoria Rance, founder of the Stop the Silvertown Tunnel Coalition, on the tunnel being out of date the moment it opens
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