Thousands want to scrap Blackwall and Silvertown tolls
A petition containing more than 40,000 signatures calling for proposed tolls on the Blackwall and Silvertown tunnels to be scrapped has been presented at City Hall.
Toll charges of up to 拢4 per journey through the soon-to-open Silvertown Tunnel and the neighbouring Blackwall Tunnel were announced by Transport for London (TfL) on 26 November.
The Silvertown Tunnel will open next spring and will provide a new road crossing under the Thames between Silvertown and the Greenwich Peninsula.
The charges are "designed to manage levels of traffic using the tunnels", TfL has said.
But why is there such opposition? 麻豆社 Radio London's Eddie Nestor has been finding out.
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