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DOVER: Traffic is free flowing through border controls and check-in. ... Andy Gregory has a rundown of today’s travel chaos: ... After people were left stuck on coaches for up to 18 hours last ...
Why Brexit is to blame for holiday traffic chaos at Dover Saturday 1 April 2023 16:15 , Maryam Zakir-Hussain Our travel correspondent Simon Calder explains the reasons behind the Dover delays today:
Travellers got out of their vehicles to stretch their legs while traffic was at a standstill in queues on Saturday. Holidaymakers warned there is a way to go to clear Port of Dover backlog Skip to ...
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 .
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.
‘It’s because there were not sufficient border force people there from the French equivalent checking those passports’, says Tim Loughton
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The M20 motorway to Folkestone was constructed in stages from the 1960s and provided a faster route to Dover following extensions built in the early 1990s, after which traffic levels on the M2 and A2 reduced. The Queen Elizabeth II Bridge opened in 1991. A new flyover for A2 westbound to M25 northbound traffic was completed in late 2007.