Mr Andrew Smith – 2014 Parliamentary Question to the Department for Transport

The below Parliamentary question was asked by Mr Andrew Smith on 2014-03-18.

To ask the Secretary of State for Transport, how many vehicle crossings of the Thames were made through the Rotherhithe and Blackwall tunnels in 2013.

Robert Goodwill

Data for 2013 are not yet available; the remainder of this answer refers to 2012 data.

A table providing the 2012 estimated annual average daily flows (AADFs) for road links covering the Rotherhithe and Blackwall Tunnels (for both directions combined) are shown in the table below:

2012 AADF	Total Motor Vehicles
Rotherhithe Tunnel	32,615
Blackwall Tunnel	69,243

These figures give estimates of the number of vehicles travelling along individual sections of road on an average day of the year.

To calculate an estimate of the annual usage of the tunnels (for both directions combined); these daily AADF estimates would be multiplied by the 365 days in a year.

AADF data for individual motorway and ‘A’ road links for 2000 – 2012 are available on our website, here:

http://data.gov.uk/dataset/gb-road-traffic-counts

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