Jul 25, 2022
Eurotunnel and Dover queues: Warning Channel traffic will be busy this weekend
Over the weekend traffic built up on the roads leading to the Eurotunnel terminal in Folkestone and Port of Dover after the M20 motorway through Kent to the south coast was closed to cars from Maidstone to Folkestone because of Operation Brock, which sees lorries diverted to park on the motorway. Mr Howe said there needed to be more infrastructure in place to take traffic off the roads, such as lorry parks. "We shouldn't really have to have queues of traffic due to all of this, so we need more infrastructure in place," he said. John Keefe, director of public affairs for Getlink - which operates the Eurotunnel between Folkestone and Calais, said the issue over the weekend had been caused by the expected "Very heavy traffic of passengers" getting away on holidays alongside an unexpected amount of truck traffic, which would normally have crossed to France earlier but had been delayed by an accident on the motorway. The UK government said French authorities failed to provide enough border staff to check passports at Dover over the weekend, while the French transport minister Clement Beaune highlighted additional border checks brought on by Brexit.
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