It’s a shame it’s gonna be cancelled

No money for NHS ,schools,and this so called black hole how can they justify all that money on one road that within 5 years will be back to square one

Holes now that's a thing go down Brentwood High Street empty shops the road looks like it's been carpet-bombed and it's full of broken promises and red tape to cover three generations. Once it was a powerhouse and fun.

Am delighted to receive your continuing information. All strength to your arm when dealing with the luddites and the eco naifs and obsessives. Please no 'going forwards ' when you are using the future tense. .Please do not over egg the greenwash.

No No No.

Well done. I wish that the natural habitat lobbyists who pursue their own narrow agenda at immense public expense were similarly confronted with the facts. Given free reign those minority pressure groups can make national infrastructure improvements virtually unaffordable -- see HS2.

The planning application for this is 359,000 pages long, and has cost £300m so far. That's more than it cost Norway to plan and *build* the world's longest road tunnel (Lærdal). Britain's planning system is a sick joke.

It's a great idea, and it is very much needed, everyone agrees, now please, stop talking and let the builders get on with it.

After 15 years in planning and bureaucracy, whether it gets built or not, people still get paid, and that red tape and stalling see a generation die. The fifteen years to start a project in the UK is a horrendous crime. Cut the red tape and lining of the pockets and get on with it. Too many planning laws and councillors were involved in costing money to the country just to arrive at more broken promises; the Romans would've built it quicker. I have seen multiple family and friends pass away, saying it wouldn't happen in their lifetime.

All that money being spent on preparation for this tunnel and this is the best CGI you can get?

Thoroughly worthwhile initiative in public relations to deal with the wowsers who seem determined to put negativity first with most infrastructure improvements. Any chance of shipping the piles to the site by SHIP.? Perhaps by RAIL. HS2 might have taken the trouble to inform in the same way. HS2 was gold plating at its worst. French approach to H S projects and costings seems to be very different.The UK will always have trouble with major projects if your sort of cars is not given to inform tax payers and users.

As kids we were often chased off the construction site by security and police, happy days.

Looking forward to this getting built. When will it be ready??

It’s mad to think that even back then there was queues to go through it so nothing has changed in like 50 years lol

Was quite enjoying the history of the Dartford Crossing up until the propaganda piece about how the proposed (not wanted!) Lower Thames crossing is meant to relieve the traffic in Dartford! Maybe deal with the issues at Dartford rather than diverting the issues to another bottleneck down at Gravesend, how on earth do you expect all the traffic to divert off the M25 and around the multiple sets of traffic lights at the Darenth interchange to get onto the A2 down to this proposed new crossing?! Let alone reducing the amount of lanes on the A2 Londonbound and coastbound to feed into this disastrous idea. Option A14 is the only real option to resolve all the issues at Dartford, this would finally make the M25 a complete orbital motorway tunnelling underneath the existing tunnels and joining up both sides of the Kent and Essex sections of the M25. The current crossing and the A282 would only be used for local traffic. But of course the Highways Agency aren’t really interested in fixing the root of the problems, the proposed new crossing involves hundreds of acres of land grab and now I believe there’s even talk of making the potential new crossing a toll road as well just to add insult to injury!

Yrs of talking, lets get it built, dartford crossing is i nightmare every day every hr , i tried the tunnels at midday its still crazy, queue at junction 3 as normal every day .

I drove across it in thick fog, scary !

I'm 74 - will never happen in my lifetime!

I’m old enough to remember driving through it as a single tunnel. Then watched the second tunnel being built and finally the bridge. Reality is they never looked far enough ahead each time to understand the true numbers that would use it. As for the queues. If you know your way around the lanes you can drop straight onto the tunnel on the South side without putting up with the regular standstill from Junction 3 or 4 but don’t tell everyone😂

The “dedicated team” that keep the traffic flowing should all be sacked, they took £209 million last year and wasted years of peoples lives queueing.

Should have the lower Thames crossing finished by 2070….

Honestly, when every a new plan is announced, who genuinely believes it will happen within 50 years?

The biggest cash cow on the UK roads

shame i did not see any train tracks included

went through it saturday nightmare traffic was miles back

I was a haulage driver in the mid 90s & used the tunnel a lot !! What a horrendous place that whole area was then !! Thank god !! I don't have to go anywhere near that Hell on earth place Anymore !! A total nightmare !!!!

We need more meetings about this

Had to travel through the Dartford crossing many times to see my family in Kent from Essex. Great piece of infrastructure

I has a local call it the A282, but hay, it just needs to have a better way of doing the escorts and removing broken down vehicles. Why they not got a full time wreck recovery truck at the control centre is a mystery to me,

We need another meeting to discuss this as after all we have only been talking about this for only 10 years

Fantastic project.But freight traffic coming from Dover and Eurotunnel using the crossing will be held up coming of the M20 at junction 6 Blue Bell Hill and getting on the M2 at the top of Blue Bell Hill,or otherwise the M2 will have to run all the way unhindered to Dover.

Why is the bridge so high?, both banks are just above sea level but the bridge is 213ft {65m} high and I haven`t seen any 200ft tall ships. It`s crazy, many people will not use it because of it`s height.

Existing Dartford crossing (in particular North Bound through the tunnels) is a an absolute catastrophe, it's midday on a Friday in May and looking at google maps the Northbound traffic is queuing from J3 at Swanley, around 6 miles. This is common most days of the week, and when it really snarls up the whole surrounding areas of Bexley and Gravesend grind to a halt. They need to fix the immediate problems first before starting on a new tunnel that will probably never get built or finished in my lifetime & I'm 55 !! The non toll booth idea is a massive failure !!

I don’t think you’ve done your research or your not telling the truth. Either way this will not ease anything the Silvertown tunnel is a prime example the road network needs improvement first as with the Silvertown tunnel your moving the problem at a massive expense to the taxpayers then charging everyone to use it. The Dartford crossing was supposed to be free once paid for Never happened while it takes around 65 million a year in revenue Is this tunnel just so you can build more and more houses in north Kent ?

Nice video.

Years and years of further disruption on top of what there all ready is! Born and bred here and don’t miss it one bit!

Now just a traffic clogged hell 7 days a week!

lot of money made by ‘toll booth’ operatives back in the day before it became computerised. One for me,one for the tunnel!

Wasnt the toll only until the tunnel and crossing paid for it's self? Which it has done. This toll is just another tax now 😬

I’ve an uncle in Whitfield Kent so I’ve been through the tunnel but what a journey from Lanarkshire away up north greetings from Scotland 🇬🇧🇬🇧🇬🇧

Perfect vision with hindsight as with a lot of public infrastructure projects like this you really need to double or quadruple the capacity then have foresight to double that again Dartford crossings are woefully inadequate for modern circumstances The lower Thames crossing will help if it ever gets completed

If it’s been open since 1963 why do we still have to pay to use it?. Surely it’s paid off by now.

Correction. The Dartford Tunnel and the QE2 bridge are NOT part of the M25. They don't meet motorway standards and are actually the A282. So the M25 does not orbit London.

What's the clip of Spaghetti junction got to do with this then,?

Very good video. It does fail to mention the removal of the old tollbooths for the far superior and quicker system they have now.... As if!!! Could some please explain how its gotten far worse than when we had to stop at a toll booth? South side traffic is so much worse than before. I cant understand how with all this computer modelling that they use to design these that they got it so wrong. Those in charge should be prosecuted for the colossal waste of time, energy and money that was expended, simply not good enough in the 21st century!!!

My family live in Essex and I live in Sussex so have to use the crossing to get to see them and to get home, however last year I developed an unexplained fear of the bridge and how have to drive into london to cross at the Blackwall tunnel in order to get home. Very strange but i can not bring myself to drive over the bridge.

About time the charge was abolished as was promised once the crossing was paid for.

Don't worry about the charge, once it's paid for it will be free...

Big up mr Harvey.