Guest 651- Registered: 12 Mar 2008
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To whom do I send the the bill for the extra fuel I am having to use to divert around it every day ?????
Been nice knowing you :)
Guest 697- Registered: 13 Apr 2010
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I agree, Howard. If this sort of thing was happening at Heathrow, untold resources would be thrown at it to keep things moving. However, this is Dover, so the Government don't get it and don't care. I'm afraid I'm somewhat dubious about what local MPs can actually do in terms of delivery from central Government. Yes, they can issue the odd press release to say they've "raised the issue with the minister" but nothing actually happens.
Guest 649- Registered: 12 Mar 2008
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What can be done? well that is nothing if the Rd needs to done and it is unsafe then we have to live with it,they have already said it will "Take weeks to get the parts to repair it" IFthey had not spoted it and somthing had happen and killed a member of the public there would have been a upcry,"Why did you not do the repairs"Yes it is the main Rd to the port and Dover so we have to take to the side Rds or go the A2 way.Just do what I and lot of others do If you go to work at 0700hrs each day go that 0600hrs.Agree I do not work anymore so I do not have to rush about.But I worked in London etc for avery long time and this is not the first time this kind of thing as happen is it.
Jan Higgins
- Location: Dover
- Registered: 5 Jul 2010
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Nobody is saying the road should not be partly closed, what everyone is complaining about the the speed or lack of it getting the repairs done.
This area of the country is one of the main routes used by so many lorries, transporting so many important items all over the country. It should be treated as a priority not a 'we'll do that when we feel like it jobs'.
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Guest 645- Registered: 12 Mar 2008
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The roads are the veins carrying the lifeblood of Britains economy around. Large resources should be thrown at road repairs even if it means chain gangs of convicts or mustering the unemployed to lend a hand.
Marek
I think therefore I am (not a Tory supporter)
Guest 649- Registered: 12 Mar 2008
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Sorry but the parts they are waiting for come from overseas and if what it said in the paper is right it will take weeks for them to be made. You might say why did they not think about that before before and have a set put by in case this kind of thing happen, well as we know it would have been down to cost. But also in the paper it said"The parts should have lasted 30years in fact they only lasted 18years," it is not about how many workers you put on the job it was about parts.Could they have beem made over here? .
Jan Higgins- Location: Dover
- Registered: 5 Jul 2010
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That is the point, weeks to get the parts not the twelve to eighteen months the highway bods are allowing, then one could add the time since the problem was first discovered.
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Guest 649- Registered: 12 Mar 2008
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They are points I know nothing about Jan,but what I do know is about how long it takes at times to get parts from overseas.
Sue Nicholas- Location: river
- Registered: 12 Mar 2008
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Many of you know both my sons are design engineers and are very frustrated at the suggested time it will take to get the replacement parts for the bridge tunnel .One reson for the delay is who will pay ?
Vic my younger son does go to work earlier and is getting so fed up he goes from Hawkinge via Canterbury to Dartford .
Some days they have to travel to Oxford ,Bath or other places due West so not funny to add extra travelling time on a days work
I think pressure should be put on our local MPs as when there is a problem on our road network we become grid locked .
howard mcsweeney1- Location: Dover
- Registered: 12 Mar 2008
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surely the department of transport would foot the bill?
howard mcsweeney1- Location: Dover
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courtesy of the independent, no mention of our local problem.
The AA said routes to south west England were likely to be the busiest, with congestion also expected on main routes to the coast, at cross-Channel ports and at major airports.
The top five traffic hotspots were likely to be:
:: The A303 from the M3 through Hampshire, Wiltshire and Somerset.
:: The M5 from Almondsbury near Bristol to Exeter;
:: The M3/M27/A31 from Winchester in Hampshire to the Dorset coast;
:: The M6 between Junction 11A through Staffordshire and Cheshire into Lancashire;
:: The western part of the M25 between M1 interchange at junction 21 in Hertfordshire and the M3 interchange at junction 12 west of Chertsey in Surrey.
Guest 683- Registered: 11 Feb 2009
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People outside the area have no idea of the impact of Operation Stack or the other hold ups we suffer - unless they get caught in it. It will need a total collapse of the road infrastructure for people to sit up but even then, as has been said, there will be a few positive sound bites then all will go quiet again as things settle into 'normality'.
Guest 649- Registered: 12 Mar 2008
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Pressure is needed on the D.D.C. and the MP for the mess our town is in the road repairs to the M20 will get done in FEW WEEKS BUT WE HAVE BEEN WAITING FOR THE TOWN FOR 40YEARS.
Guest 651- Registered: 12 Mar 2008
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My thoughts are that by slowing the traffic right down and lorries going over the speed bumps are actually going to cause more stresses and strains on the expansion joints that traffic travelling over it as a decent speed
Sorry Vic this is potentially going to cause problems/inconvenience to hundreds of thousands of people, I don't think St James's being a bomb site is going to bother more than a handful of people (but this is another topic!!).
Been nice knowing you :)
Guest 697- Registered: 13 Apr 2010
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There are two problems here. Firstly, the considerable inconvience for local traffic, and secondly, the impact on the national economy. As has been mentioned, Dover is on a par with Heathrow Airport. We are an island nation and most of our trade arrives by sea. Keeping roads open to the busiest ro-ro port in Europe should be an absolute priority for those that are supposed to run the country. How on earth they expect the private sector to get us out of the recession when we lack basic infrastructure (and the ability to repair it) is beyond me.
Guest 651- Registered: 12 Mar 2008
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Amazed yesterday to have driven though the Roundhill Tunnels at 70mph - felt like I was doing something naughty going that fast after half a year of crawling through there !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
Still the same London-bound though.....
Been nice knowing you :)
Guest 656- Registered: 13 Mar 2008
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Brilliant news! At least we are half way there now
Just seen Marek's July posting above on this old thread, wonder how he is doing, anyone heard anything?
howard mcsweeney1- Location: Dover
- Registered: 12 Mar 2008
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good point colette, the last bulletin from marites was more than a week ago.
fingers crossed all round.
Guest 656- Registered: 13 Mar 2008
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Howard.
