Keith Sansum1
- Location: london
- Registered: 25 Aug 2010
- Posts: 23,948
So how. Do we slow traffic down, if that is the need????
It appears to be a problem otherwise humps wouldn't have been put there
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Karlos- Location: Dover
- Registered: 1 Oct 2012
- Posts: 2,588
No left turn from York Street into Townwall Street at the moment, even though today there's not much traffic.
Karlos- Location: Dover
- Registered: 1 Oct 2012
- Posts: 2,588
School holidays start today. I wonder if everyone decides to go on holiday at the same time as usual?
Is the port affected by the world-wide computer problems?
Jan Higgins
- Location: Dover
- Registered: 5 Jul 2010
- Posts: 13,922
From DDC.........
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Travel update
Summer getaway: Travel alert
This weekend (July 19 to 21) is expected to be one of the busiest for cross-channel traffic as most schools break up and people head off on their summer holidays.
The Olympic Games also begin in Paris next Friday (July 26) so this busy period will continue over the coming weeks.
We know this can impact residents and businesses in Dover when the town becomes congested and we understand how frustrating this can be.
We are not responsible for roads, which falls under Kent County Council and National Highways, but we work closely with the community and do all we can to offer support and advice.
FWe also have a dedicated page on our website where you can find up-to-date information including:
The expected busiest days for port traffic
Details on how traffic is being managed
Links to key services in the event of disruption.
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TheThinWhiteDuke- Registered: 7 Jul 2016
- Posts: 363
I can see me struggling to get home from work yet again tomorrow morning. Need to go shopping on route as well. Didn't think that through?
victor matcham- Registered: 5 Oct 2021
- Posts: 1,137
Dover hit again
Karlos- Location: Dover
- Registered: 1 Oct 2012
- Posts: 2,588
Is the road through Whitfield still closed? Sure the works should be finished by now.
Next week the A256 is closed between Whitfield and Eastry in the Sandwich direction
Matey
- Location: Dover
- Registered: 11 Oct 2021
- Posts: 178
Karlos wrote:Is the road through Whitfield still closed? Sure the works should be finished by now.
Next week the A256 is closed between Whitfield and Eastry in the Sandwich direction
We live just off it, nice and quiet! Apparently opens again on August 2nd.
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Keith Sansum1- Location: london
- Registered: 25 Aug 2010
- Posts: 23,948
Who would have thought this title would still be running after all these years
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Jan Higgins- Location: Dover
- Registered: 5 Jul 2010
- Posts: 13,922
On Sunday 11th August the following roads will be closed between 1600hrs and 1900 hrs for the Dover Town Carnival Parade.
Stembrook Car Park
Market Square
Biggin Street
London Road
Cherry Tree
Barton Road
Frith Road
Charlton Green
Maison Dieu Road
Pencester Road
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Button
- Location: Dover
- Registered: 22 Jul 2016
- Posts: 3,090
It's our running-free
Philosophy:
Juxtaposition.
https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/c4gz9n06rxdo
£10.5m split three ways is nice, but it isn't
that nice.
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Dover Pilot- Registered: 28 Jul 2018
- Posts: 350
Is this in addition to the £45m for the Dover Access Improvements levelling up allocated by the previous government or has that been scrapped?
Button- Location: Dover
- Registered: 22 Jul 2016
- Posts: 3,090
Good question - I assume it's in addition.
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Keith Sansum1- Location: london
- Registered: 25 Aug 2010
- Posts: 23,948
Is there still two Dover carnivals
Or have they made up with each other?
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Karlos- Location: Dover
- Registered: 1 Oct 2012
- Posts: 2,588
https://x.com/KentHighways/status/1829048049546473962
https://letstalk.kent.gov.uk/local-transport-plan-5-2024
Come and have your say on the new Local Transport Plan for Kent by visiting us at Dover Library and Gateway on Castle Street between 12 pm to 4 pm today (29th Aug) or visiting
Keith Sansum1- Location: london
- Registered: 25 Aug 2010
- Posts: 23,948
Suggest people do
Looking at cuts in buses , let them know
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Captain Haddock
- Location: Marlinspike Hall
- Registered: 8 Oct 2012
- Posts: 8,302
Cars could be forced to queue in fields in order to avoid chaos on Kent’s roads when new EU border checks come in at the Port of Dover, according to reports.
https://www.kentonline.co.uk/dover/news/cars-could-queue-in-fields-to-avoid-chaos-on-kent-roads-312221/"The world is still a weird place, despite my efforts to make clear and perfect sense of it".
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Button- Location: Dover
- Registered: 22 Jul 2016
- Posts: 3,090
I'm not sure I'd call Manston a field exactly, but there is one adjoining the Fastrack road... Mind you, it could be quicker to abandon juxtaposition.
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Neil Moors- Registered: 3 Feb 2016
- Posts: 1,299
Button wrote:I'm not sure I'd call Manston a field exactly, but there is one adjoining the Fastrack road... Mind you, it could be quicker to abandon juxtaposition.
Am I right in thinking that if we abandoned the juxtaposition arrangement, the problem suddenly shifts to the French side of the channel? Of course, the backlog will extend to the ferries and there would be delays etc, but the "optics" change from "delays at Dover" to "delays in France".
Matey- Location: Dover
- Registered: 11 Oct 2021
- Posts: 178
They seem to have their fair share too Neil, big queues there already, travelled back last week.
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