Karlos- Location: Dover
- Registered: 1 Oct 2012
- Posts: 2,599
#1
The A2 is shut by the police coastbound from the Sandwich road A256 junction near B&Q. Full of lorries.
Traffic is backing up Green Lane towards Melbourne again (yesterday too). I thought that the work on Barton Road had finished?
Brian Dixon
- Location: Dover
- Registered: 23 Sep 2008
- Posts: 23,940
#2
the weather,hightend security in the docks,inefective policing....the list go's on.
Brian Dixon- Location: Dover
- Registered: 23 Sep 2008
- Posts: 23,940
#3
and the lack of cheap lorry parks,drivers hours etc.
Andy B
- Location: dover
- Registered: 10 Nov 2012
- Posts: 1,829
#4
For many of the foreign trucks cheap parking is just not good enough.it has to be free as there companys will not pay for parking.they supply the driver with a sleeper cab and that is that.They wont pay for any extras and the drivers will not pay out of their wages to park.
Sue Nicholas- Location: river
- Registered: 12 Mar 2008
- Posts: 6,025
#5
Too many lorries using the A2.
Sue Nicholas- Location: river
- Registered: 12 Mar 2008
- Posts: 6,025
#6
Too many lorries using the A2.
howard mcsweeney1- Location: Dover
- Registered: 12 Mar 2008
- Posts: 62,352
#7
Shepway have their own solution for the problem of trucks parking where they fancy.
http://www.kentonline.co.uk/folkestone/news/hgv-drivers-fined-3000-in-46894/howard mcsweeney1- Location: Dover
- Registered: 12 Mar 2008
- Posts: 62,352
#8
Trucks were lined up going nowhere on the A20 near the Court Wood interchange earlier.
Brian Dixon- Location: Dover
- Registered: 23 Sep 2008
- Posts: 23,940
#9
still is howard,has been like since midnight,with horns blasting.
howard mcsweeney1- Location: Dover
- Registered: 12 Mar 2008
- Posts: 62,352
#10
Surely they weren't sounding their horns during the night Brian?
Karlos- Location: Dover
- Registered: 1 Oct 2012
- Posts: 2,599
#11
A2 currently blocked at least up to Whitfield, I pity the cars stuck between the lorries there. No TAP on the A2.
Plus backed up the town again.
Jan Higgins
- Location: Dover
- Registered: 5 Jul 2010
- Posts: 13,931
#12
What happened to the plan to use Manston?
Have those in charge given up on that silly idea?
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Guest 1694- Registered: 24 Feb 2016
- Posts: 1,087
#13
Manston is only intended for use to prevent the M20 backing up to Maidstone - ie once stack is backed up to Junction 9, Dover bound freight is redirected via jct 7 to Manston. It was never intended to help Dover.
Brian Dixon- Location: Dover
- Registered: 23 Sep 2008
- Posts: 23,940
#14
they where howard,kept a few people awake.
Jan Higgins- Location: Dover
- Registered: 5 Jul 2010
- Posts: 13,931
#15
Thanks Neil my mistake, I thought it was designed to help any backlog involving the ferries and port.
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Guest 1694- Registered: 24 Feb 2016
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#16
Honest mistake Jan, one that many will have made,,, a cynic might conclude that the Manston plan was designed specifically to keep the wealthiest residents of Kent's driveways free by dumping the problem on the doorsteps of the less well heeled residents of East Kent, can't have Mr Carter trapped on his own driveway now can we, how on earth would Kent function without him?
howard mcsweeney1- Location: Dover
- Registered: 12 Mar 2008
- Posts: 62,352
#17
You are such a cynic Neil, where would be the best site in your opinion?
Guest 977- Registered: 27 Jun 2013
- Posts: 1,031
#18
Just as cynical as you Neil, I'm sure the problems on the A20 are because the powers that be don't want to have Stack implemented daily again as that would get national publicity.
(maybe I'm extra grumpy as it's taken me 30 min to do the 3 min trip from Coldred to Lydden thanks to the overnight closures of the A2, when the BBC Travel website says there are no roadworks in the area.)
Karlos- Location: Dover
- Registered: 1 Oct 2012
- Posts: 2,599
#19
Sue Nicholas- Location: river
- Registered: 12 Mar 2008
- Posts: 6,025
#20
Sadly Ray neither DDC or KCC are interested in our local problems. Revenue is being lost because lorries are using the A2. People going to and fro work trying to get to the Doctors etc should not be stuck in traffic jams .Buses are all over the place. Whitfield and Whitfield Hill night mare .Perhaps Ray Cllr Collor will listen to you.