During construction, transport minister Ernest Marples clarified that unlike the Dartford Tunnel, also then under construction, tolls would not be imposed as the tunnel was already an established route.
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In 1960, Richard Marsh, MP for Greenwich complained that traffic could spend 30 to 45 minutes stuck in tunnel traffic.
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It is the closest station to Woodlands House (once the home of John Julius Angerstein and later an art gallery and history archives centre), and is also close to the southern approach to the Blackwall Tunnel, a notorious traffic bottleneck.
South of the A12/A13 interchange with the adjacent landmark Ernő Goldfinger designed Balfron Tower, the designation of the Blackwall Tunnel Approach reverts to the A102 through the Blackwall Tunnels and under the River Thames to Greenwich.