No longer will the spare pound coins found in pockets or glove boxes be enough to get you over the Dartford Crossing.

From 10pm Saturday, new fees for the tunnel and bridge will come in. Private car drivers will have to fork out an extra 50p to cover the £1.50 charge and lorries will see the cost rise by nearly 40 per cent from £2.90 to £4.

Now the cost of the tunnel and bridge has been paid for we want to know if you think the new charges are fair.

A discount scheme means Dartford and Thurrock drivers get 50 free crossings a year and will pay just 20p per crossing after that.

MP for Bexleyheath and Crayford David Evennett wants discounts to be offered further afield than Dartford.

He said: "The issue here is fairness and there is a real unfairness about the tolls. It is just an additional taxation.

"If there have to be tolls then Bexley, Bromley and Gravesham should be prime candidates for concessions because of their locations."

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Secretary for the Kent branch of the Association of British Drivers Brian MacDowell said: "This is another slap in the face for drivers who were promised further tolls would be abolished providing repayment had been made on the crossing.

"Successive governments have failed to keep their promise and the idea you can introduce a poll to manage traffic flow is utterly ridiculous.

"Motorists already pay £50billion a year on our roads and this antiquated system should be removed."

He added: "The cost of having a lorry sitting on the tunnel approach road adds to the cost of living for everybody.

"It must be impossible to estimate journey times and businesses should be hopping mad their costs are being increased unnecessarily by what is probably the biggest engineered bottleneck on the UK’s road network."