Karlos- Location: Dover
- Registered: 1 Oct 2012
- Posts: 2,543
Idiot lorry driver trying to jump the queues by going under the low bridge at Kearsney station.
Of course, if the authorities were policing the traffic properly he would never have hot that far.
https://www.kentonline.co.uk/dover/news/lorry-jammed-under-bridge-265211/Jan Higgins likes this
Keith Sansum1
- Location: london
- Registered: 25 Aug 2010
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Being said this will last over 3 weeks
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Keith Sansum1- Location: london
- Registered: 25 Aug 2010
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Who would have thought that when out Howard raised this issue in 2017 that we would still be talking about it today
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Arthur- Registered: 18 Nov 2020
- Posts: 438
Raised on BBC Question Time last night from Canterbury -MP trying to deflect all the blame onto P&O. Audience we’re having none of it…….unfortunately ran out of time for a proper airing of the issues and sensible debate.
Kent is the biggest car park in the county- suggest the lorries are stacked by the junctions much further up the round the M25. Perhaps Leatherhead, Guildford area and watch how quickly the Government find a meaningful solution!
Sue Nicholas- Location: river
- Registered: 12 Mar 2008
- Posts: 6,025
They should stop the Lorries coming into Kent .Only letting through a few at a time.Another weekend of misery..I just hope they make sure PO are fit to sail .Safety is the most important thing.I wait to see if DDC declares a major incident.
Gary39- Registered: 7 Jul 2017
- Posts: 451
Aycliffe residents raised this in Apr 2015… but because it only affects Aycliffe no one cared
I also raised Dover TAP on Question Time about 3/4 years ago.. again it got brushed aside..
It seems when the rest of Dover or Kent suffers it get higher profile..
Once this hiccup is over Aycliffe will be forgotten an sacrificed again guaranteed
Sue Nicholas- Location: river
- Registered: 12 Mar 2008
- Posts: 6,025
Dont worry Garry I lobby your locaCouncillors..What with the cancellation of bus services.The Aycliffe bus service connects with River .Staff shortage .
Sue Nicholas- Location: river
- Registered: 12 Mar 2008
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Re traffic chaos .Both my sons work in Dartford .The Elder one took took one hour forty minutes the younger one left later so not so long as there were not so many Lorries and a few were turned round at Brenley Corner.Long days for those who have to travel so far .
victor matcham- Registered: 5 Oct 2021
- Posts: 1,075
Yes it was my wife looking at the lorry under the River bridge.We was the first ones there and I was helping the driver to get it moved ,there would not have been so much damage to his lorry if he had done what I said,I told him to go backwards because by going forward he will get even worse stuck because of the uphill camber in the road, now one more gentleman had turned up and we let the tyes down to get more room at the top and the lad who turn up got up on the side and was trying to take off the airfoil on the cab roof,he he had done it ,it might have done the trick but was not to be,so again I try to tell the driver to go back but the law officer did not agree and the driver could not speak any English so he got back in and drove slowly, I tried to stop him because I could see what was going to happen again the law officer signal him to move forward and what I said happed and he wrecked the trailer if he had gone back wards all that would have happen is the plastic foil would come off, because by going backwards he would have been on a down hill camber. But I could tell because I am 79years old no one was taking any notice of what I was saying , and that is about all apart from a very wrecked trailer.
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Guest 3925- Registered: 28 Nov 2020
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If all this traffic chaos wasn't enough, I came home today and checked my letterbox......
It's bad enough to be worrying all night about whether I can get to work tomorrow and now this, the nightmares are going to be bad tonight
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ray hutstone- Registered: 1 Apr 2018
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Enough to put anyone off wanting to live here!
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Keith Sansum1- Location: london
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We as one Sue
That we are still allowing Dover to be at a standstill
Is wrong
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Button
- Location: Dover
- Registered: 22 Jul 2016
- Posts: 3,057
AndyPol wrote:If all this traffic chaos wasn't enough, I came home today and checked my letterbox......
It's bad enough to be worrying all night about whether I can get to work tomorrow and now this, the nightmares are going to be bad tonight
See #522.
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Guest 3925- Registered: 28 Nov 2020
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You obviously opened it and read it.....maybe they need to think about their front cover and how to entice people to read it rather than throw it straight on the bin......
Button- Location: Dover
- Registered: 22 Jul 2016
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Yeah, and it left me wondering if they ever proof-read the stuff before it gets published!
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Arthur- Registered: 18 Nov 2020
- Posts: 438
Mine went straight from the letter box into recycling bin…….you see she does have a use!!
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Keith Sansum1- Location: london
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Doubt many people read it .
We are in a very unstable position at the mo
Our MP has lost touch with reality and onky fodder for the govt ....
We look to the major opposition where we are likely to end up with the same candidate where the MP doubled the majority ...
Not much to look forward to
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Gary39- Registered: 7 Jul 2017
- Posts: 451
https://www.kentonline.co.uk/dover/
This made me laugh …. People in nice quiet villages in Kent complaining about lorry horns…
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Karlos- Location: Dover
- Registered: 1 Oct 2012
- Posts: 2,543
Still a steady flow of lorries through the town, but at least there’s a policeman at the Townwall St / Woolcomber St junction.
Captain Haddock
- Location: Marlinspike Hall
- Registered: 8 Oct 2012
- Posts: 8,092
As I've probably written before (and I'm sure I've got the cuttings somewhere) about 40 years ago at the old Webbs Hotel on the Folkestone Road, there was a planning inquiry in to the A20 extension route.
Both DHB and DDC were intent on the present route leading directly to Eastern Docks, cutting off the town from the sea front and going through miles of AONB where there was no way any peripheral development would ever be allowed.
Myself and a couple of others spoke, asking that the route instead orbited the town dropping down on to an improved A2 and Jubilee Way.
This would have gone through fairly low grade agricultural land and opened up for developments such as truck-stops, freight clearance, emergency parking, warehouses, hotels etc.
It was not to be.
DHB wanted a road to take people as directly as possible to the Port and DHB thought that if they could get half of humanity driving within a few hundred yards of the town centre 'obviously' many would stop off in Dover's thriving town.
We are where we are.
Today the bit I don't understand why in the days of GPS and Mobile Phones, would-be freight traffic are setting off from what is probably quite a nice car park by the Happy Eater in Scunthorpe with all facilities and find themselves surprised to be parked up at Maidstone on the M20.
Surely it cant be beyond the wit of man to have a system where using such as TomTom information for traffic speeds and hold ups, trucks can be advised to set off towards the port only when they have some prospect of crossing in the near future.
It's not that difficult, Amazon seem to be able to do this with multiple destinations on a daily basis.
"We are living in very strange times, and they are likely to get a lot stranger before we bottom out"
Dr. Hunter S Thompson
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