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  Presumably 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.

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