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The Silvertown Tunnel is a road tunnel under construction beneath the River Thames between North Greenwich and Newham.
It is being promoted by Transport for London (TfL) and will be delivered through a design, build, finance and maintain contract by the Riverlinx consortium. The £1.2 billion tunnel is intended to reduce congestion through the Blackwall Tunnel and both tunnels will be tolled when it opens in 2025.
The tunnel will include dedicated lanes for heavy goods vehicles and buses, and all future bus routes that will use the tunnel will be zero-emission buses.
East London is getting a “bus replacement rail service”
Usually, people talk about rail replacement bus services when a railway is closed, but for a few weekends, there will be the opposite - a bus replacement rail service, when part of the Blackwall tunnel is closed.
First photos from inside the Silvertown Tunnel
Tunnelling work on the two new road tunnels under the Thames in east London has been completed, and the first photos inside have been released by the company building the tunnels.
TfL proposes a special “bike bus” for cyclists to use the Silvertown Tunnel
When it opens, cyclists wont be allowed to use the new Silvertown Tunnel but could be offered a specially adapted shuttle bus to carry their bikes through the tunnel.
New tunnel under the Thames completed
The first of two new road tunnels under the Thames has been completed as part of the Silvertown Tunnel.
Tunnelling starts on East London’s Silvertown road tunnel
After several years of work to prepare the ground, tunnelling has started on the Silvertown road tunnel linking Blackwall and North Greenwich.
UK’s largest tunnel cutting head lowered into its London shaft
The largest tunnel boring machine cutting head has been lowered into the space prepared for it to start digging the Silvertown road tunnel in East London.
UK’s widest Tunnel Boring Machine on its way to East London
The UK's widest tunnel boring machine (TBM) has passed its factory acceptance tests, and will shortly be shipped from the factory in Germany to the UK, to arrive in East London and start digging the Silvertown road tunnel under the Thames.
