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  Courtesy of the Dover Express website.
  
  
  Readers might be interested to hear that I spoke about this very matter to representatives of the Highways Agency only last week. I suggested that the imposition of the 40MPH limit on the A20 into Dover - supposedly as a safety measure to stop speeding drivers running into the back of the lorry queue the few times that we have Operation TAP - was causing much resentment locally. Motorists were being fined for exceeding the limit on days when the carriageways were completely clear, whilst others, keeping to this rather arbitrary speed limit, were being tail-gated by foreign registered lorries who knew they could flout the limits with impunity. Meanwhile many local drivers, myself included, were using the old A20 into Dover where we could keep up a much higher speed before clogging up the Folkestone Road with extra traffic. I suggested that the obvious solution was a variable speed limit which would only come into play when necessary i.e. when lorries were backed up onto the M20. He attempted to explain that the Highways Agency had not had the necessary technology (sic) and they also had to be mindful of what signage was put in so as not to ruin an Area Of Outstanding Natural Beauty (I kid you not). I told him that it was absolutely pathetic to think that in 2015 such 'advanced' technology was not available even if it involved a man in a van just going down the A20 and switching the signs 'on' when needed and that his organisation was an absolute joke. He assured me that Highways Agency are now on top of the matter and a variable speed limit should be in force by Easter. I can only presume that highly skilled technicians are installing on/off switches on the signs as I write. I am not holding my breath! Bob Frost (Cllr)

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