Brian Dixon
- Location: Dover
- Registered: 23 Sep 2008
- Posts: 23,940
martin,its just not aycliffe roundabout its the whole streatch from folkestone to the docks.and apart from that dhb know in advance that the docks fill up quickly,so if they contacted kent police well in advance the road wouldnt bloke up,thats a lack of conmunication.and its been going on since they put the road through.
Guest 715- Registered: 9 Jun 2011
- Posts: 2,438
How would they prevent it blocking Brian?
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Brian Dixon- Location: Dover
- Registered: 23 Sep 2008
- Posts: 23,940
by putting stack in early,and sending 50 veicles down every half a hour.or a more costly way by putting a custom/imigration/check in some where between asford and folkestone.
Guest 715- Registered: 9 Jun 2011
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Stack is for Freight, not tourist traffic, no immigration or Customs checks in Dover for French bound traffic, there are PAF checks but doubt very much they could operate anywhere but within the confines of the Port. It is a pain for everybody involved in it, the only way to control it would be to have a large amount of police officers ready to be deployed every time there is a snarl up but as it becoming harder and harder for them to police the county to a minimum standard that can not happen.
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Brian Dixon- Location: Dover
- Registered: 23 Sep 2008
- Posts: 23,940
aparently last time i heard 8 traffic cops for the whole county.
Guest 715- Registered: 9 Jun 2011
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The candidates for the Police Commissioner will be canvassing for your votes, see what they think about the situation or even if they know it exists, make them earn your vote.
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Brian Dixon- Location: Dover
- Registered: 23 Sep 2008
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well i know charlie does,because i have personly bent his ear about it,on more than one ocasion.
Guest 640- Registered: 21 Apr 2007
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Watched the traffic carefully this weekend. Huge volumes early in the mornings everyday. When you consider that all that traffic is coming to a dead stop at the Port it all seems to work relatively well...well kind of. Loading and loading is mesmerisingly fast but it is still a naturally obvious dead end with the resultant backlog. I dont think it is possible to find a total solution.
What happens is that everyone tries to get away first thing. Understandable, but the roads are much much freer in the afternoons, or so it seems from my viewpoint here. Huge volume = mornings. Less volume = afternoons.
If travellers were aware of that they could perhaps stagger it sensibly themselves.
Even the hotels here empty out in the mornings with all heading Portwards. In the afternoons dead quiet.
Yes good point Martin about bending the ear of the Police Commissioner candidates.
Guest 717- Registered: 16 Jun 2011
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Brian I think your post #25 has hit the nail on the head. Nothing to do with communication between DHB and Police, it's all about resources. Martin raises a valid point but you cAnnot justify a set of Officers on standby 'just in case'. Compared to what it used to be like the traffic does not back up that often.
PaulB you are right. Bank holiday weekends always see busy tourist traffic in the morning. Unfortunately the lorries get caught up in it and end up backing up.
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Brian Dixon- Location: Dover
- Registered: 23 Sep 2008
- Posts: 23,940
helen t,the lack of communication part comes in when the port starts filling up and then backs up the a20,if dhb contacts the police early enough the a20 wouldnt get blocked.
helen t,here is a qoute from bob goldfinger,and i qoute,"the dock traffic isnt our problem untill it enters the docks boundry."un qoute.
Guest 717- Registered: 16 Jun 2011
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Brian I'm afraid we'll have to agree to disagree on this one. I still believe it is a matter of resources and that communication between both parties is very good. We cannot base our judgement on one comment but merely on facts we know. We must know different facts.
Still alls well that ends well. We've only had one back up this busy weekend
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Jan Higgins
- Location: Dover
- Registered: 5 Jul 2010
- Posts: 13,894
I often wonder why the traffic police do not monitor the road by remote camera, problems could then be sorted earlier rather than later.
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Brian Dixon- Location: Dover
- Registered: 23 Sep 2008
- Posts: 23,940
agreed helen,but somthing despretly to change atitudes on all partys.