DHB Traffic Management Improvement Project
- 10 September 2012 10:22190676This huge scheme does not seem to have attracted much attention as yet, quote:
"Brief Outline
Located at the entrance of the Eastern Docks, the Traffic Management Improvement Project will make a significant improvement to the resilience of the operation of the Port, enhance the visual impression at the front of the Port and at times will help reduce congestion on the external road network. A temporary holding area with a capacity to hold up to 220 freight vehicles (equivalent to a 2.4 miles single lane) will be constructed between the check-in facility inside the Port and the roundabout at the entrance to the Eastern Docks. This facility is anticipated to be utilised mainly at peak times when the volume of traffic entering the Port exceeds the capacity of one or more ferry operators at the check-in facility.
By using the new area to temporarily hold traffic for particular ferry operator(s) experiencing heavy demand at the check-in facility, the Port will be better able to facilitate traffic for the remaining ferry operators to reach the check-in facility and be processed for onward transfer to the assembly parks further inside the Port."
http://www.doverport.co.uk/?page=PorDevelopmentTerminal1 - Brian Dixon
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10 September 2012 10:37190680thats ok untill it goes boobs up and backs up the a20 as useall. - 10 September 2012 10:57190689this came up before but i cannot find what thread it is on.
http://www.thisiskent.co.uk/Port-Dover-Eastern-Docks-given-11-5m-facelift/story-16462727-detail/story.html - Jan Higgins
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10 September 2012 12:27190697Being a cynic would this holding area have happened if not for the Port sell off.-----------------------------------------------------------------------
I try to be neutral and polite but it is hard and getting even more difficult at times.
------------------------------------------------------------------- - 10 September 2012 14:16190707DHB initially announced that they were going to do this back at the end of 2010 as part of their (un)planned redevelopment of the Eastern Docks. They then re-announced it as part of the initial £12m (approx) phase of the redevelopment, previously announced, in August 2011 (I think it was August, it may have been a little earlier). Then they announced it again the week after the last public PCC meeting in May this year as part of the same spending that was announced the previous year and now they have re-announced it again.
- 10 September 2012 16:20190741If it helps ease the traffic problems does the reasoning matter?Audere est facere.
- 10 September 2012 16:48190744Hi Martin, not saying it's a bad thing or questioning the why, better traffic management is long overdue. Just pointing out that DHB have already announced it several times already, so it is hardly new news.
- 10 September 2012 18:36190762No problem with you pointing out the facts Neil, and in your position quite right too, but any thing that eases the burden for the Town and Aycliff ( Brian
) has to be welcomed and encouraged.Audere est facere. - 10 September 2012 19:04190769i think that d.h.b have learned from recent chancellors, make an announcement about something nice that will happen in a years time, announce it again 6 months later - then again another 6 months later.
comes across to the public as 3 good things happening. - 10 September 2012 21:41190789Yes- then they open yet another donkey sanctuary-thats 4!Never give up...
- 11 September 2012 01:55190796Presumably this is going to happen this time, rather than just being announced. A timetable has been quoted which envisages various stages leading to completion in two years time.
DHB tried to get a buffer zone approved for construction out beyond Farthingloe Farm some years ago but fortunately that was refused planning permission. Creating an equivalent holding area for freight inside the entrance to the existing Eastern Docks is a much more palatable solution. This will absorb the first 2.4 miles of freight before it commences to back up along Townwall Street and out past Aycliffe.
It also eliminates a perennial problem, that of freight for an individual operator backing up from the check-in plaza until it stretches back to Compactor Corner where the incoming freight splits into the individual lanes to the separate ferry company booths. When that happens, the freight for the other companies cannot get past and the traffic starts to back up all the way through the docks to the entrance and then along Townwall Street.
The introduction of the dock exit road solved the problem of traffic being unable to leave the docks due to the roundabout being blocked by traffic turning to go up Jubilee Way. At busy times, this used to cause the docks to become constipated with stationary traffic unable to leave, thereby depriving incoming traffic from having anywhere to go and causing further backups along Townwall Street.
Things are therefore gradually getting better and, with a volume downturn likely to last long into the future, perhaps our traffic problems will be a thing of the past. Just possibly, we may one day look back on the problems attendant upon success and regret their passing should the future transpire to be one of long term decline. - 5 May 2013 01:20228174Some photos of progress to date on the Traffic Management Improvement project.
This area used to be occupied by canopies for inbound coaches. They were demolished some time ago.
This is demolition taking place behind the multi storey carparks.
http://www.doverport.co.uk/?Page=PorDevelopmentTerminal1
