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The tunnel links the eastern end of The Highway to Canary Wharf in London Docklands. Built between 1989 and 1993 at a cost of £ 293,000,000 it has been calculated as the most expensive road scheme in Britain per mile, [ 1 ] working out at £50,500 per foot at 2011 prices. [ 1 ]
Fifty riverside wharfs have been safeguarded from development in Greater London. Today the port is the UK's second largest by cargo handled (53 million tonnes in 2008). [83] The Port of London Authority is responsible for most port activities and navigation along the River Thames in London and on the Thames estuary.
In London, Transport for London is responsible for all trunk roads and other major roads, which are part of the Transport for London Road Network. [5] All other roads are the responsibility of the relevant county council or unitary authority. [5] In Northern Ireland, DfI Roads is responsible for all 5,592 miles (8,999 km) roads.
The A2 meets traffic lights at Kidbrooke; this is the last set of traffic lights out of Greater London (the lights only apply to traffic turning right onto the A2213). Shortly after here, the A2 crosses the A205 South Circular Road and becomes a motorway in all but name, with 3 lanes and a hard shoulder in each direction.
Motorways within London are the responsibility of National Highways. [5]The rest of the streets are the responsibility of the London boroughs – or natural person or corporate owners predominantly in the case of the tiny percentage of roads that are private roads, and over which the law provides for shared responsibilities with users in the case of public rights of way.
The route meets the A1202 Great Eastern Street/Commercial Street - the London Inner Ring Road - directly to the south-west of Shoreditch High Street London Overground station. [4] The London Inner Ring Road forms the boundary to the London Congestion Charge zone. The A10 falls within the charging zone between the A3 London Bridge and the ring ...
The traffic area extended for about 25 miles (40 kilometres) from Charing Cross in central London, and was thus much larger than the existing County of London or Metropolitan Police District. It included the whole of the County of London and Middlesex , much of Surrey and Hertfordshire , plus parts of Kent , Buckinghamshire, Berkshire and Essex .
The road crosses the River Thames at Battersea Bridge.Turning left at the northern end of the bridge, the A3220 follows the northern bank of the Thames for some 500 m before swinging northwestward and becoming two separate roads as part of a one-way system. 500 m after crossing the A315, the route returns to being a standard bidirectional single-carriageway road for some 750 m as far as the ...