howard mcsweeney1- Location: Dover
- Registered: 12 Mar 2008
- Posts: 62,352
Moving at a crawl town bound on the Folkestone Rd at present. The 91 bus was using the Folkestone Road, I believe there was a serious accident earlier in Alkham Valley which would explain it but most strange of all a 63 bus on the same road turning into Elms Vale Road.
Brian Dixon
- Location: Dover
- Registered: 23 Sep 2008
- Posts: 23,940
tap is also on has been since before 0700 this morning,still in operation as I type.
Brian Dixon- Location: Dover
- Registered: 23 Sep 2008
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Karlos- Location: Dover
- Registered: 1 Oct 2012
- Posts: 2,495
Karlos- Location: Dover
- Registered: 1 Oct 2012
- Posts: 2,495
Brian Dixon- Location: Dover
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Bob Whysman
- Registered: 23 Aug 2013
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Could this be an early indication of how the Irish/U.K./EU land bridge could turn out if Dover Calais was subjected to French Meddling?
https://www.irishtimes.com/news/politics/uk-could-renege-on-ireland-s-truck-land-bridge-to-eu-td-warns-1.4356489
Do nothing and nothing happens.
Karlos- Location: Dover
- Registered: 1 Oct 2012
- Posts: 2,495
Came home from work via the Whitfield roundabout, which was 3/4 blocked because of lorries stopped across the junctions.
The policing of junctions and roundabouts is these situations is usually useless. Some on-the-spot fines wouldn't go amiss!
ray hutstone- Registered: 1 Apr 2018
- Posts: 2,158
French meddling? You do like a joke, Bob. Didn't you know we've taken back control?
Button
- Location: Dover
- Registered: 22 Jul 2016
- Posts: 3,039
Well yes, but... "The Home Office must take any steps necessary to keep the country safe. But that shouldn’t mean Dover gets gridlocked from traffic delays @Port_of_Dover. The traffic schemes to #KeepDoverClear didn’t work this time. Let’s learn lessons and put it right."
(A concerned MP)
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Pablo- Registered: 21 Mar 2018
- Posts: 614
Something similar to Dover TAP needs to be put in place near the Shepherdswell junction on the A2, otherwise port-bound traffic will merely divert down the A2, causing chaos like that of the last few days.
Neil Moors- Registered: 3 Feb 2016
- Posts: 1,298
Forgive me for mixing threads, but this is what a no deal Brexit boils down to - are the good folk of Dover prepared to accept traffic chaos on a daily basis, providing they think the EU is responsible? It's a huge political calculation. Will you sit for 50 minutes trying to get from Folkestone Road to Tesco - and say "Oh well, I don't mind, as it's the fault of the French"
Button- Location: Dover
- Registered: 22 Jul 2016
- Posts: 3,039
Pablo wrote:Something similar to Dover TAP needs to be put in place near the Shepherdswell junction on the A2, otherwise port-bound traffic will merely divert down the A2, causing chaos like that of the last few days.
When DHB suggested that, the local MP of the time was against it. As for Brexit, I doubt that the presence or absence of a 'deal' will make any difference - Brexit implementation will either cause delays or it won't.
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ray hutstone- Registered: 1 Apr 2018
- Posts: 2,158
There is no doubt that brexit will cause local delays and exacerbate those caused by seasonal peaks and other incidents. Various national and local government reports are quite clear on the subject. A trade deal which obviates the need for tariffs will help in a small way but we are leaving the single market and the customs union with all that that implies. Smartfreight will help but the chances of it being in any way effective in time for 2021 are minimal. Dovorians need to get their heads around that, pro-brexit or agin it.
It won't bother this government terribly because the seem to think it a price worth paying. Compared with the damage that will be done nationally it probably is pretty small beer anyway.
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Captain Haddock
- Location: Marlinspike Hall
- Registered: 8 Oct 2012
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"We are living in very strange times, and they are likely to get a lot stranger before we bottom out"
Dr. Hunter S Thompson
Button- Location: Dover
- Registered: 22 Jul 2016
- Posts: 3,039
ray hutstone wrote: A trade deal which obviates the need for tariffs will help in a small way
Yeah; I think the word we're looking for here is 'tiny'!
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Karlos- Location: Dover
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Brian Dixon- Location: Dover
- Registered: 23 Sep 2008
- Posts: 23,940
A20 a car/ lorry park again
Reginald Barrington
- Location: Dover
- Registered: 17 Dec 2014
- Posts: 3,236
France has announced a 48hr ban on all human handled freight!
Prepare for total gridlock in and around Dover.
Arte et Marte
Karlos- Location: Dover
- Registered: 1 Oct 2012
- Posts: 2,495
But of course the police, highways agency, etc will act quickly to ensure the traffic builds up outside Dover, won't it???
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