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News Stack alternative ‘ready by 2019’


THE successor to Operation Stack on the M20 will be in place by March2019 andManstonAirport is lined up as a back-up truck park, whether or not a Brexit deal is achieved. Project Brock, which provides a


contraflow to allow traffic to keep moving in both lanes of the motor- way, will take two weeks of overnight closures between junc- tions 8 and 9 to put in place. But another version of the system


– using lightweight separators or cones – can be implemented in a matter of a few hours, we have learned. Highways England told Downs


MailManstonAirport is nowa def- inite back-up facility, although get- ting trucks to it may prove to be challenging, say critics. This is linked to Operation Stack


and not the Brock project. The systemwill allow2,000 lorries


to be stacked on the motorway on the 13-mile stretch fromMaidstone services to the firstAshford turn off. Another 1,000 lorries can be de- tained on the A20 between the Ay- cliffe roundabout in Dover and the Roundhill Tunnels at Folkestone.


A spokesman for Highways Eng-


land spokesman, who confirmed that the full Brock system would take a fortnight to put in, said: “We are committed to having it done by March 2019. It is definitely going in. “As far as we are concerned, it is


not linked towhether or not there is a Brexit deal.” In a later


statement, the


spokesman added: “Two versions of the temporary traffic management scheme are under development. “One version involves a pre-


deployed temporary steel barrier that takes several days to install and the other involves use of a light- weight lane separator or cones that wewould seek to deploy in a num- ber of hours, should we need to react to traffic conditions that in the pastwould have led toOp Stack.” Of Manston Airport,


spokesman said: “We do still have the airfield as a back-up, although that would be a multi-agency deci- sion to implement.” The capacity is estimated at about


4,000 lorries. Critics – including MPs, local borough and district councillors andcross-Channel trans- port experts – are sceptical as to


LIBERAL Democrat group leader at Kent County Council, Rob Bird, wor- ries that much of the freight using the western side of the M25 will take the M20 in preference to the M2, which is better to connected to Manston Airport. This means that, in the event of


the


port closures or delays, vast amounts of freight would have to


whether the new stacking/con- traflowsystemcanwork. One source at Westminster told


us: “If, come January, they start to put out cones on theM20,we know we’re in trouble.” Nopermanent lorryparkhas been


secured in Kent and MPs on the M20 corridor are becoming increas- ingly concerned about how con- stituents and businesseswill cope if traffic spills onto local roads. The former boss of the Port of


Dover, Tim Waggott, has already warned to expect 17-mile tailbacks in both directions if a technology- based clearance system is not de- vised quickly. Letters, pages 46&47


‘Op Brock willmean gridlock’


use “totally unsuitable” roads to get to Thanet, he added. Cllr Bird said: “Thewhole thing is a


pig's breakfast. Thismeans theywill have to be captured and sent to Thanet via Detling Hill or sent through the centre of Dover and across country to Manston that way. Brock is not workable – there will be gridlock."


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