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Kent presses DfT for lorry park cash

17 July 2009
 

Kent County Council is hoping to persuade the DfT to change its policy on motorway service area provision in an attempt to resolve the traffic disruption whenever cross-Channel ferry or Eurotunnel services are disrupted.

Currently, whenever cross-Channel services are disrupted, Kent Police uses emergency powers to implement ‘Operation Stack’, closing two sections of the coastbound carriageway of the M20 and using them to park thousands of lorries. Other traffic has to follow...

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