TheThinWhiteDuke- Registered: 7 Jul 2016
- Posts: 343
AndyPol wrote:I'm sorry about that and hope my protestations to Kent Police get it cleared before you need to come home and you get home safely.
Not your fault Guv.
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- Location: Dover
- Registered: 22 Jul 2016
- Posts: 3,009
Cripes, only logical of course, but not your usual product self-endorsement:
http://www.doverport.co.uk/about/news/haulier-information/13569/!
Inspired choice of a speeding lorry pic!
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Button- Location: Dover
- Registered: 22 Jul 2016
- Posts: 3,009
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TheThinWhiteDuke- Registered: 7 Jul 2016
- Posts: 343
Google maps is telling me to go through Cheriton, up Dover Hill, through Capel and down Folkestone Road. Sounds sketchy to me.
Button- Location: Dover
- Registered: 22 Jul 2016
- Posts: 3,009
Sounds a bit too obvious Duke?
Mind you, Facebook has reports of an HGV stuck under the Kearsney rail bridge on the Alkham Valley road.
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TheThinWhiteDuke- Registered: 7 Jul 2016
- Posts: 343
Well. I made it. As Google Maps suggested two posts ago then over The Hamlets (A/M20 closed from the Cheriton Tesco roundabout). Must have got the last available parking spot in Beaconsfield Road/Avenue. Glad I didn't even attempt to hit Barton Road or go through the valley. I'd still be stuck.
Now to make lunch for tomorrow, sleep, and then go through the same rigmarole again tomorrow no doubt (Hope they've managed to move that lorry from Alkham Valley).
Well, I say sleep. I'm so stressed out.
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Guest 649- Registered: 12 Mar 2008
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Sorry to hear about that there are ways of clearing the rds just read my emails but all the best at this time.
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TheThinWhiteDuke- Registered: 7 Jul 2016
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Cheers Vic.
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Guest 649- Registered: 12 Mar 2008
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Yes when I was a site worker up about 3am going some times over 100miles to work do ten hrs on site then the long drive home again up to 7days a week but money was good .we had a very good boss he would pay you from the time you set off till you got back, but some who did not a boss like myself did not get paid till they got to the site or only one way payment less then your hour rate of pay.But still miss it at times even that it was ten years ago living in digs at times in france,Germany and the UK year away at times more then that when in the army.But at times it was good fun if you log into vic matcham you can see some of it,Ido not know how it got on there .well lets hope most if not all tHe HGV DRIVERS get home for Christmas and new year.
Karlos- Location: Dover
- Registered: 1 Oct 2012
- Posts: 2,469
Get up to find there's still no sign of traffic into the town being controlled. I can see more cars, presumably belonging to locals abandoned on the double yellow lines from my window.
Karlos- Location: Dover
- Registered: 1 Oct 2012
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Weird Granny Slater
- Location: Dover
- Registered: 7 Jun 2017
- Posts: 2,989
So it'll be a limbo dance across Townwall Street for my constitutional.
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Karlos- Location: Dover
- Registered: 1 Oct 2012
- Posts: 2,469
Townwall Street and Woolcomber Street are two-way of course
I wonder how many of those drivers have had their corona test?
Guest 3925- Registered: 28 Nov 2020
- Posts: 541
Woke up at 6am, walked down to Morrisons and got a few bits the wife had forgotten to buy.
Passed an ASDA lorry trying to deliver locally amongst a line of foreign lorries, none of them moving. Came back home and passed the same lorry still not moved by 6.30. Then I went for a walk up the Roman Road, then along past Burgoyne Heights to the cliffs.
Port looks like they are loading vehicles, but it's very slow.
A2 was clear at Guston bridge, Jubilee Way was clear!
When I returned home at 9.30am the same ASDA lorry was parked in exactly the same place on Barton Road!
It seems that this side of Dover has been abandoned. As I walked up my hill, just outside my house was a Blood Van desperately trying to get through somehow. Me and another resident advised him how best to try and get out of the mess, and off he went.
Made my second call to the police on 101 and they have a live incident on their system just for the A256 so he thanked me for reporting the above and said that they are getting many calls now about this.
If you need to leave the town, London Road is clear and that side of Dover is ok, but don't expect to get back in!
Happy Christmas Dover
Bob Whysman
- Registered: 23 Aug 2013
- Posts: 1,931
Weird Granny Slater wrote:So it'll be a limbo dance across Townwall Street for my constitutional.
Starting the bar at 2 metres and Voltarol provided at 1.5 metres?
Do nothing and nothing happens.
Bob Whysman- Registered: 23 Aug 2013
- Posts: 1,931
Karlos wrote:Townwall Street and Woolcomber Street are two-way of course
I wonder how many of those drivers have had their corona test?
It looks like our French ‘friends’ are providing some much needed help at last:
https://www.theguardian.com/world/2020/dec/24/french-firefighters-arrive-in-dover-with-10000-covid-tests-for-lorry-driversDo nothing and nothing happens.
Captain Haddock
- Location: Marlinspike Hall
- Registered: 8 Oct 2012
- Posts: 7,892
Excellent. The French still call them fireMEN.
No PC crap from Johnny Frog!
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Jan Higgins
- Location: Dover
- Registered: 5 Jul 2010
- Posts: 13,790
A friend has said the army were directing traffic on her trip to work.
Apparently Argos might be closing early and the following was posted on FB by our Morrisons store....
"Please do not attempt to travel by car to our Dover store today.
The town is still gridlocked with traffic.
Walking is the only safest option. We are open until 6pm today and reopen Boxing Day at 9am.
Please be patient and calm as the staff are working extremely hard
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Dover Pilot- Registered: 28 Jul 2018
- Posts: 342
Ambulance service also saying they probably won't be able to respond to Dover calls.
Jan Higgins- Location: Dover
- Registered: 5 Jul 2010
- Posts: 13,790
An ambulance lady was supplied with tea and goodies along Barton Road this afternoon after being stuck for 45mins or so, she gave thanks and said they were now moving.
My friend near Morrisons posted a pic of a partially cleared road, but how far along she did not know.
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