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Approximately 5,000 trucks were stuck in Kent, England, including 3,800 at Manston Airport and 1,200 on the M20 motorway, on December 23 after France banned UK freight due to fears over a new ...
Advanced warning traffic sign for Operation Brock. Operation Brock is the traffic management system in Kent, England, used to supplement Operation Stack during cross-Channel traffic problems. It was originally developed for use in the event of a no-deal Brexit and the name is derived from Brexit Operations across Kent.
Following delays in any proposal being put forward by central government, Essex and Kent County Councils intend to create a joint proposal for the construction of a crossing. [18] In January 2009, the Department for Transport published a study regarding potential ways to address capacity issues crossing the Thames.
Operation Stack was a procedure used by Kent Police and the Port of Dover in England to park (or "stack") lorries on the M20 motorway in Kent when services across the English Channel, such as those through the Channel Tunnel or from the Port of Dover, are disrupted, for example by bad weather, industrial action, fire, or derailments in the tunnel.
Journeys on the strategic road network were delayed by an average of 10.6 seconds per vehicle per mile in the 12 months to the end of March. Delays on major roads up 12% in a year to hit record ...
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The Dartford–Thurrock River Crossing, commonly known as the Dartford Crossing and until 1991 the Dartford Tunnel, is a major road crossing of the River Thames in England, carrying the A282 road between Dartford in Kent in the south and Thurrock in Essex in the north.
With the increased traffic on these roads, the main towns were bypassed; and then in the 1960s two motorways were built: the M2 from Medway to Faversham, and the M20 from Swanley to Folkestone. Part of the M25 runs through Kent, from Westerham to the Kent and Essex tunnel at Dartford. Even these roads have failed to provide adequate capacity ...