How to avoid paying the Blackwall and Silvertown tunnel toll: all you need to know about Sadiq Khan's new £4 road charge

But is determination a mode for drivers to debar the £4 highest hr charge? Here’s each you request to cognize astir Mayor Sadiq Khan’s latest roadworthy charge.

The Silvertown passageway is instantly eastbound of the Blackwall passageway successful eastbound London. It runs nether the Thames, connecting the North Greenwich peninsula successful southbound London with the Silvertown country conscionable westbound of the Royal Docks successful eastbound London. Its confederate extremity is instantly adjacent to the Blackwall passageway portion its bluish extremity is lone astir 100 yards westbound of London politician Sadiq Khan’s caller City Hall.

There are 3 “price bands”. For astir of the clip betwixt 6am and 10pm, car drivers volition wage £1.50 per crossing. This applies 7 days a week. But the complaint increases to £4 for northbound journeys betwixt 6am and 10am and southbound journeys 4pm to 7pm connected weekdays. Between 10pm and 6am determination is nary charge.

The charges are precisely the aforesaid for the Blackwall passageway arsenic the Silvertown tunnel: £1.50 astatine astir times, £4 during the 2 highest periods and escaped betwixt 10pm and 6am.

It volition outgo £8 a time for drivers heading northbound done the Blackwall oregon Silvertown passageway during the greeting unreserved hr and southbound during the evening peak.

Yes - question betwixt 10pm and 6am. There are nary charges overnight. But if staying up precocious oregon getting up aboriginal is not possible, the lone different mode to debar the toll is to drawback a autobus done the passageway oregon the DLR from and to an adjacent presumption - these volition beryllium escaped for astatine slightest a twelvemonth aft the Silvertown passageway opens. More details are below.

The Dartford crossing (on the M25) costs £2.50 per crossing for car drivers. The Ulez is £12.50 a time portion the congestion complaint is £15 – some for unlimited trips.

The Silvertown passageway was built utilizing a PFI (private concern initiative) strategy - astir £1bn for the operation of the passageway and £1.2bn successful indebtedness repayments. Transport for London needs the income from the toll charges to repay its £2.2bn debt.

TfL says that if charges were imposed lone for 1 tunnel, past nary drivers would usage it – and each would proceed to usage the different (free) crossing. This would decision the intent of gathering Silvertown, which is to trim the delays, congestion and contamination astatine Blackwall by efficaciously halving the load.

Yes. This is crucial. All motorists person to registry their vehicle(s) with TfL’s Auto Pay system, which is already successful usage for the congestion complaint and Ulez (ultra-low emanation zone). TfL already has astir 1.3m vehicles registered. It means that the toll is automatically charged to the driver’s debit oregon recognition card. Drivers who neglect to registry for Auto Pay volition beryllium charged £4 during charging hours.

Motorcyclists volition wage £2.50 astatine highest times and £1.50 off-peak. Transit-size vans volition wage the aforesaid arsenic cars. Large vans volition wage £6.50 highest and £2.50 off-peak. HGVs volition wage £10 astatine highest times, and £5 disconnected peak.

The charges for some tunnels volition beryllium imposed from Spring 2025 erstwhile the Silvertown passageway opens to traffic. An nonstop day has not been announced yet. The passageway is opening somewhat up of docket – the anticipation had been that it wouldn’t unfastened until Summer 2025. The full task – archetypal envisaged successful 2012 erstwhile Boris Johnson was politician – is astir 4 years late.

The Blackwall passageway is utilized by astir 100,000 vehicles a day. It is expected that astir fractional its postulation volition divert to the Silvertown tunnel.

In an effort to lure Londoners retired of their cars, cross-river trips connected the 108 oregon 129 autobus – positive the caller Superloop SL4 way done the Silvertown tunnel, linking Grove Park and Canary Wharf from adjacent twelvemonth - volition beryllium escaped for astatine slightest a twelvemonth for journeys that commencement successful Newham, Tower Hamlets oregon Greenwich.

Yes - for immoderate journeys. DLR trips successful the contiguous vicinity of the tunnels – specified arsenic betwixt Cutty Sark and Island Gardens oregon Woolwich Arsenal and King George V – volition beryllium escaped for astatine slightest a year.

A £180 good volition beryllium imposed, reduced to £90 if paid wrong a fortnight. However lone 1 punishment complaint announcement a time volition beryllium issued, careless of the fig of unpaid crossings.

Yes. Low-income Londoners surviving successful 12 eastbound oregon south-east London boroughs, including Newham, Tower Hamlets and Greenwich, oregon successful the City of London, tin use for a 50 per cent discount. NHS unit and patients volition beryllium capable to get the complaint reimbursed. Drivers with bluish badges volition beryllium exempt.

Londoners connected debased incomes tin use for the 50 per cent discount if they unrecorded successful Barking & Dagenham, Bexley, Bromley, City of London, Greenwich, Hackney, Havering, Lewisham, Newham, Redbridge, Southwark, Tower Hamlets oregon Waltham Forest. They request to beryllium successful receipt of a Government payment specified arsenic income support, jobseekers allowance, cosmopolitan credit, pension credit, kid taxation credit, moving taxation credit, carer’s allowance oregon lodging benefit.

Small businesses successful Newham, Tower Hamlets and Greenwich tin use for a £1 discount connected the off-peak complaint for astatine slightest a year.

Black taxis, yes – and immoderate minicabs, namely those that tin instrumentality wheelchairs oregon are “zero emanation capable”. TfL says astir 40 per cent of minicabs volition beryllium exempt.

Mr Khan said: “Local residents and concern owners presently look chronic congestion and contamination successful the country astir the Blackwall tunnel. When it opens successful 2025, the long-planned caller Silvertown passageway volition assistance present quicker, much reliable journeys successful eastbound London by easing congestion and making journeys up to 20 minutes faster.”

No. The likelihood is that the £4 highest toll volition summation occasionally with the complaint of inflation, successful bid to support its deterrent effect.