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Evening Standard
Evening Standard
National
Ross Lydall

Silvertown and Blackwall tunnel tolls to cost drivers £100m a year - but will only make £3m 'profit' for TfL

Nearly ready : The northern entrance to the Silvertown tunnel at canning Town - (Ross Lydall)

Drivers are expected to pay more than £100million a year to use the Blackwall tunnel and new Silvertown tunnel when tolls are introduced next Spring, Transport for London has revealed.

But TfL itself stands to make only about £3m a year “profit” from the tunnel tolls – and £180 penalty fines for drivers who fail to pay – because the cost of repaying the £2bn Silvertown scheme is so huge.

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