Brian Dixon
- Location: Dover
- Registered: 23 Sep 2008
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you all ways give them a challenge,arange a meeting eastern docks when you know the road is blocked.but they must use the m20/a20 route to get there.
Guest 715- Registered: 9 Jun 2011
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They are shut for a reason Vic.
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howard mcsweeney1- Location: Dover
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Jan Higgins
- Location: Dover
- Registered: 5 Jul 2010
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I know this is a pipe dream but between them Central Government, KCC, DDC, and DHB should compensate all businesses that have been affected for the simple reason this lorry problem should have been sorted years ago.
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Guest 698- Registered: 28 May 2010
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I'm an optimist. But I'm an optimist who takes my raincoat - Harold Wilson
Guest 715- Registered: 9 Jun 2011
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Jan Higgins wrote:I know this is a pipe dream but between them Central Government, KCC, DDC, and DHB should compensate all businesses that have been affected for the simple reason this lorry problem should have been sorted years ago.
Eurotunnel as well?
Audere est facere.
Paul Watkins- Location: Dover
- Registered: 9 Nov 2011
- Posts: 2,226
Jan, good idea other than DDC money is you directly paying more, add KCC's contribution and a great deal more is syphoned from your purse.
Now government with Freight levy plus DHB & Eurotunnel could well be less stressful to your purse.
Jan Higgins- Location: Dover
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What ever is eventually decided Paul I suspect it will mean I help pay via my taxes.
The Freight levy should really pay for any improvements which is why I put Central Government first, DHB and Eurotunnel will only cough up if it is in some way beneficial to them, neither of them care one iota about this area only how much money they can make.
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Terry Nunn
- Location: London Road, Dover
- Registered: 12 Mar 2008
- Posts: 4,316
Couldn't do my normal run to the sea front this morning, lorries straddled across Woollcomber/Townwall Street junction. Rozzers (couldn't see if podpol or Kent) at the York Street roundabout.
Terry
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Brian Dixon- Location: Dover
- Registered: 23 Sep 2008
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podpol terry,they where there this morning,,,,,,,,0815.
Terry Nunn- Location: London Road, Dover
- Registered: 12 Mar 2008
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Earning their keep for once then Brian!
Terry
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Brian Dixon- Location: Dover
- Registered: 23 Sep 2008
- Posts: 23,940
A20 blocked yet again,both lanes,fire brigade up aycliffe estate,both on 2s and blues.
howard mcsweeney1- Location: Dover
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No let up in sight.
Jan Higgins- Location: Dover
- Registered: 5 Jul 2010
- Posts: 13,895
Again and again and again.
No bad weather, no tunnel problems advertised and it is Wednesday not Tuesday. Maybe a barrier inland is needed stopping lorries entering Dover without a timed ferry booking.
BTW Howard you put the wrong link up.
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howard mcsweeney1- Location: Dover
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Thanks Jan, normally Wednesday is one of the quieter days for freight.
Brian Dixon- Location: Dover
- Registered: 23 Sep 2008
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howard it can happen at any time,tuesdays,wednesdays or Thursdays.more often since Christmas .
howard mcsweeney1- Location: Dover
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Guest 649- Registered: 12 Mar 2008
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Thats nothing new been said many times but not that easy to carry out ,(1) for about 5years could only get into the docks via the A2 (2)cost of it all.
And just think of all the holdups with what they find there going back before Roman times. There was over 1year hold ups with just finding that old boat.What would help is have roll on and off at the Western end of the port the same as the East end.
Reginald Barrington
- Location: Dover
- Registered: 17 Dec 2014
- Posts: 3,259
Certainly been brought up numerous times, but it is the only way that Dover can be brought back to the thriving destination it once was, the st James development is certainly not going to achieve it nor the muted cable car. Dover desperately needs reconnecting to its coast. The western docks development will hopefully help alleviate some of the congestion but RO-RO would help more (has this been addressed in the development plans?)
Arte et Marte
Guest 649- Registered: 12 Mar 2008
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I put this to the D.H.B. at a meeting some years go.
I'm an optimist. But I'm an optimist who takes my raincoat - Harold Wilson