Department for Transport

TRANSPORT ACT 2000

The Secretary of State for Transport hereby gives notice in accordance with Article 2 of the above-named Order that, as from 1 April 2003, tolls will cease to be leviable under section 16 of the Dartford-Thurrock Crossing Act 1988, by the person appointed under section 11 of that Act, and that, as from the date, the highway described in Schedule 1 of the Order shall become subject to the charging regime set out in Schedule 2 to the Order.
The highway reffered to in Schedule 1 of the Order is a length of the A282 Trunk Road of approximately 3.5 kilometres from a point below the north face of the bridge carrying Crossways Boulevard over the Trunk Road at Junction 1 a at Dartford in the County of Kent, and extending northwards to a point approximately 300 metres north of where it crosses London Road at West Thurrock in the County of Essex and carried through twin tunnels beneath the River Thames and on the Queen Elizabeth II bridge over the River Thames.
The Order is a trunk road charging scheme made under sections 167, 168, 171 and 172(2) of the Transport Act 2000.
M Webbe, Highways Agency
4 March 2003.