First look inside Silvertown tunnel as TfL confirms summer 2025 opening

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

It said the £2bn 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 previous mayor Boris Johnson – is progressing.

The tunnel boring machine completed its “return journey” digging the two tunnels last August. The route extends from the Royal Docks – only a few hundred yards from City Hall – on the north side of the Thames to north Greenwich, adjacent to the southbound exit from the Blackwall tunnel.

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