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Last year it was in the local paper that the crossing was owed millions in unpaid fines....
The reason they are having this issue is that they decided to continue charging when they were supposed to stop charging (after the initial construction cost was repaid), but the local residents in Dartford objected to the old toll booth system that saw dozens of lorries queuing and caused a massive issue with air quality in the area.
The compromise was to continue charging but switch to ANPR-based payment, which prevents the pollution issue from queuing vehicles but obviously means that some tolls and fines will remain uncollected.
Still, even so the crossing generates more revenue than it would have done if they stopped charging altogether as they said they would....