Brian Dixon
- Location: Dover
- Registered: 23 Sep 2008
- Posts: 23,940
a20 road works started on the 15/5/17,brief below sets out the planed works.
area 4 asc/cf/cc dated 17/5/17.
we are installing new elactronic signs to allow the speed limit to varybetween the national speed limit and 40 mph when freight is being managed on the a20.
we will be undertaking these works in 2 phases with preliminary work starting on Monday the 15th of may.
phase 1construction and installation of the new signs stating on monday 15/5/17 and expected to last 6 weeks.
phase 2.commissioing of the new signs starting on Monday 26 of june expected to last 4 weeks.
we will be working 24/7 to complete the work as quickly as possible with up to 10 teams out at any one time.
lane 1 will be closed on the London bound carriageway 24/7 for the duration of the work
both carriageways will be closed overnight between 8pm and 6 am on some nights during the work
all laybys at this location will be closed.
Terry Nunn
- Location: London Road, Dover
- Registered: 12 Mar 2008
- Posts: 4,305
Alas I'm a simple lad. I don't understand why lane 1 London bound will be closed 24/7 when the work concerns the coast bound side.
Considering the gradient, cars will be stuck behind slow moving lorries.
Terry
Quis custodiet ipsos custodes?
Captain Haddock
- Location: Marlinspike Hall
- Registered: 8 Oct 2012
- Posts: 8,000
This has taken TWO YEARS to start putting in variable speed limit signage.
TWO YEARS!
No wonder we take so long to build nuclear power stations and high speed rail. What a joke this country which almost invented engineering is.
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PatrickS
- Location: Marine Parade, Dover
- Registered: 19 Sep 2015
- Posts: 448
Another Two Years and Freight Clearance facilities will be required on both the M20/A20 and the A2.
BREXIT, a new Thames crossing, improvements and dualling of the A2 from Lydden being selectively a contributory factor and requirement in maintaining adequate traffic flows to and from the Eastern Docks.
No room for clearances inside the docks.
New ferry berths at Eastern when DCT moves to the new cargo terminal at West may well assist but the rate of clearance requirements from any BREXIT arrangement will not be entirely under the control of the Port.
Even if these are achieved, and on time, whilst capacity might not then be an issue, traffic flow rate through the Port could well be.
This may also be a reason why the longstanding plan for a lorry park at Stanford has gone onto the back burner!
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Button
- Location: Dover
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Post 4: assuming the UK will have freight clearance for trade with the EU (a fair assumption although we've lived without it since 1993), facilities each side of the roads, or grade-separated junctions, would be a boon - exports one side and imports the other. The case for a lorry park at Stanford is not what you'd call diminishing!
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PatrickS- Location: Marine Parade, Dover
- Registered: 19 Sep 2015
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Stanford only on the backburner because of "wait and see" policy as to exactly what facilities will be required, where they should be located how they should be run and who pays for them (although I think we all know the answer to that one).
All dependent on BREXIT negotiations.
Traffic both commercial and private, will continue to flow across the Channel and at an increasing rate. How it is managed to mutual benefit is the real challenge.
Brian Dixon- Location: Dover
- Registered: 23 Sep 2008
- Posts: 23,940
although there customs clearance at the western docks its relavty small to wots needed,ifstanford is needed it could be used as a custom clearance facility along wirh a booking area for freight with the majour ferry firms at dover,so there would be no waitng traffic on the a20
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Button- Location: Dover
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The western docks facility caters for, oo, about 5% of the traffic I should imagine, compared with the 100% that could require clearance (and not just by customs by a long way unless we're unexpectedly sensible) - somewhere. It's also on the wrong side of the road for exports. As regards Stanford, yes it could be such a facility - but it cannot be built overnight and we don't know when Day One is going to be. And it's only the the M/A20 corridor.
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Brian Dixon- Location: Dover
- Registered: 23 Sep 2008
- Posts: 23,940
build now for later,presant government dither to much.
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howard mcsweeney1- Location: Dover
- Registered: 12 Mar 2008
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Must be problems this morning the Folkestone Road is playing host to a multitude of Eastern European trucks slowing things down.
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Brian Dixon- Location: Dover
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notised that when I went into town at 0900 this morning,,.
there again they could have stopped at the beefeater for brekie.
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Jan Higgins
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Brian Dixon- Location: Dover
- Registered: 23 Sep 2008
- Posts: 23,940
according to kent online over running road works coast bound carridge way.