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Evening Standard
Evening Standard
National
Ross Lydall

Revealed: 500,000 penalty tickets for drivers who failed to pay Silvertown and Blackwall tunnel tolls

About 500,000 penalty tickets have been issued to motorists for failing to pay the Blackwall and Silvertown tunnel tolls.

London mayor Sir Sadiq Khan introduced the charges – £4 per crossing at peak times and £1.50 during other charging hours – six months ago as a way of restricting traffic flows while generating revenue to repay the £2.2bn cost of building the Silvertown tunnel.

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