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  Well Dover are making the headlines for all the wrong reasons. It would appear the traffic problem is giving more cause for concern for both tourists and locals.
  
  From the Mirror online reporter Capt Greybeard
  
  If you're driving to Dover to join a cruise ship or a cross-Channel ferry, you might want to give yourself a little extra time to get there - as I discovered when I visited Oceania's Marina in the port on Friday.
  
  There are severe delays at Folkestone - where the M20 becomes the A20 and enters the Roundhill Tunnels - due to the failure of expansion joints in a viaduct. Port-bound traffic, which has already come down from three lanes to two past the EuroTunnel turn-offs, has to squeeze into a single lane. Similar restrictions also affect traffic travelling out of Dover towards London.
  
  The hold-ups can add at least an hour to journey times at peak periods, and long tailbacks could continue throughout the summer.
  
  A Highways Agency spokesman explains that replacement joints could take three or four months to be manufactured in Europe, and work to fit them might not be finished before the end of the year.
  
  Dover Harbour Board and ferry operators are demanding urgent action, and have proposed temporary bridges be fitted.
  
  "A permanent repair to the fault is several months away and so the need to provide an adequate temporary solution is becoming critical if the key route to the UK's busiest ferry port is to cope with the anticipated volumes of traffic through the busy summer season," the operators said.
  
  Traffic is likely to increase by 50 per cent next weekend with more than a quarter of a million passengers expected to travel by ferry via Dover at the start of the school holidays

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