Karlos- Location: Dover
- Registered: 1 Oct 2012
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Buckland Avenue works now extended to 17th May
TheThinWhiteDuke- Registered: 7 Jul 2016
- Posts: 343
And here we are yet again with the roads out of Folkestone and into Dover totally gridlocked again because they've shut the Roundhill Tunnel again because they've failed to plan for peak holiday traffic again.
Fed up with not being able to get home from work without taking a nightmare Crete Road West detour and having to break traffic laws in order to do so (wrong side of the road and hatched area driving to get to the Alkham Valley turning). Guess I'm lucky I don't work in central Folkestone or there really would be no way home for me.
Hardly any food in the house and am afraid to head for Morrisons now in case I can't get back (anyone know if the town is clear? Can I get from Barton Road to Morrisons and back again?).
Seriously fuming. Yet again. Three days off all planned out now in disarray.
I can see these new checks that are coming in making this an even more frequent happening.
Terry Nunn
- Location: London Road, Dover
- Registered: 12 Mar 2008
- Posts: 4,301
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Karlos- Location: Dover
- Registered: 1 Oct 2012
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The traffic was also backed up onto Barton Road as I walked up the town.
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Jan Higgins
- Location: Dover
- Registered: 5 Jul 2010
- Posts: 13,782
There really is no excuse for the town being blocked yet again, they put tap in place so the known trouble spots should also have been kept clear.
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Gary39- Registered: 7 Jul 2017
- Posts: 446
Two words again “lessons learnt”
Jan Higgins- Location: Dover
- Registered: 5 Jul 2010
- Posts: 13,782
Gary39 wrote:Two words again “lessons learnt”
But they choose to ignore just like the postmasters and blood fiascos.
I bet the roads would have been sorted if a top MP was around doing a media speech or picture shoot.
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Dover History Pages- Registered: 12 Dec 2020
- Posts: 29
TheThinWhiteDuke wrote:And here we are yet again with the roads out of Folkestone and into Dover totally gridlocked again because they've shut the Roundhill Tunnel again because they've failed to plan for peak holiday traffic again.
They close the tunnels so lorries don't sit on the weight limited fly-over approach
Karlos- Location: Dover
- Registered: 1 Oct 2012
- Posts: 2,466
According to National Highways it is to stop queueing in the tunnel.
Perhaps the answer would be to put traffic lights on the tunnel entrance?
https://x.com/HighwaysSEAST/status/1794245192284881316
Looking at the York Street camera it looks like there is now only one man on the junction, and he's not doing a very good job. Earlier no-one was being allowed to turn left onto Townwall Street. Now it's a free-for-all.
Karlos- Location: Dover
- Registered: 1 Oct 2012
- Posts: 2,466
Interestingly I tweeted the above link to the Port, National Highways, etc and now the police have turned up
Although there's currently a coach facing the wrong way in the town-bound lane of York Street
Reginald Barrington
- Location: Dover
- Registered: 17 Dec 2014
- Posts: 3,225
If the flyover was weight limited there would be traffic control measures in place pre-flyover.
Imagine a simple breakdown or fender bender would lead to the collapse of the flyover with hundreds of vehicles on it, no it is not weight limited!
Arte et Marte
TheThinWhiteDuke- Registered: 7 Jul 2016
- Posts: 343
Dover History Pages wrote:They close the tunnels so lorries don't sit on the weight limited fly-over approach
Whatever the reason, they need to pre-empt a build up before it builds up that far back.
Came home same time yesterday (Friday) morning and they had managed to do the thing where they keep the freight back in Op Brock, then keep it in the left hand lane after the tunnel and limit the speed to forty. So was it just the extra tourist traffic today that caused a failure? If so they may need to consider holding back tourist traffic in Brock as well. Good luck identifying it though.
Fed up with being basically imprisoned in town, not being able to get around town and not being able to get into town every single bank holiday weekend (and at least a couple of Christmas run ups).
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Gary39- Registered: 7 Jul 2017
- Posts: 446
Well this a new one from DHB…blames the drivers not following traffic management. Hang on what traffic management… if there was traffic management Lorrie’s etc would not be going through the town.
https://www.kentonline.co.uk/dover/news/port-town-gridlock-caused-by-drivers-not-adhering-to-traffi-307337/victor matcham likes this
Button
- Location: Dover
- Registered: 22 Jul 2016
- Posts: 3,003
Some more detail on EES processing here:
https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/ckmm866p23mo. In addition to coach traffic being processed at the "Western Docks" (including going through border controls and being sealed), car traffic will also move "there" by 2027 - providing the Granville is filled in. Where border controls will eventually be for car traffic, isn't stated.
I can see the reasoning for coach traffic if it were a temporary measure pending reclamation and/or infrastructure at the Eastern Docks, but the car business surprises me. It seems to me that saying 'you will first visit the Western Docks' is almost like saying 'you will use the A20'. Also, to get into the site you have to cross (ie. stop) inbound traffic - and again leaving it, which was one of the fears after the referendum concerning post-Brexit processing at Western Docks of 100% of freight traffic.
(Not my real name.)
Weird Granny Slater
- Location: Dover
- Registered: 7 Jun 2017
- Posts: 2,979
An opportunity for businesses to give some 'feedback'.
(Also an opportunity for people with standards to gripe about the apostrophe catastrophe in line 1.)
business.support@dover.gov.uk
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Karlos- Location: Dover
- Registered: 1 Oct 2012
- Posts: 2,466
Karlos- Location: Dover
- Registered: 1 Oct 2012
- Posts: 2,466
Sandwich Road through Whitfield close from 24th June to the 19th July.
A long time. Does that mean they will be doing a proper resurfacing instead of the usual bodge job?
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Matey
- Location: Dover
- Registered: 11 Oct 2021
- Posts: 163
Karlos wrote:Sandwich Road through Whitfield close from 24th June to the 19th July.
A long time. Does that mean they will be doing a proper resurfacing instead of the usual bodge job?
I hope they replace the speed bumps, we have to go over them 3 or 4 times a day and there are about 10 each way! Messes up the track rods, tyres etc, even if you go really slowly (to the annoyance of others!). They're all different heights and not many actually slow down. The holes, well......we could go on and on.
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victor matcham- Registered: 5 Oct 2021
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I agree with you, they are to high and you have to go slow over them, and if the person behind you does not like it,----
but why so long ?they do a whole motorway in less time
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Jan Higgins- Location: Dover
- Registered: 5 Jul 2010
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