Council chiefs call for permanent lorry parking near A2
http://www.kentonline.co.uk/kent/news/permanent-lorry-parking-should-be-160062/
FFS.
Forumites will no doubt have noticed that Sir John Armitt has replaced Lord Adonis as chair of the National Infrastructure Commission.
https://www.constructionnews.co.uk/markets/sectors/infrastructure/sir-john-armitt-lands-nic-chair-role-full-time/10027201.article
Sir John has, of course, a background in engineering, unlike the useless Lord Adonis who .......?
With all due respect to local Council Chiefs, surely a 'problem' such as this should be part of national strategic analysis rather than locals coming up with 'back of envelope' solutions.
I trust that this has been flagged up with the NIC and pressure is being put on them by themselves, and local MPs to come up with a workable solution?
Details of NIC here:-
https://www.nic.org.uk/
As I've said before while the world and his dog has mobile communication 24/7, the idea that the best we can do when the Dover/Calais link goes down is to allow HGVs to continue converging on an enormous stretch of tarmac built on prime Kentish farming land and only used a few days a year, is madness.
It's a 19th century solution to a 20th century problem when we could have a 21st century solution.
I suspect Sir John's Commission would agree!