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Evening Standard
Evening Standard
National
Ross Lydall

Silvertown Tunnel opens - with car drivers paying up to £4 to use first new Thames tunnel for 58 years

Motorists started to use the Silvertown Tunnel for the first time on Monday – with car drivers paying up to £4 to use the first new road crossing under the Thames for 58 years.

London mayor Sir Sadiq Khan said he was “very proud” to have built the £2.2bn Silvertown tunnel – and even took the unusual step of praising his predecessor as mayor, Boris Johnson, who first came up the idea.

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