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New thinking needed to solve cross-Channel lorry problems

Brian Dalton Purley, Surrey CR8
08 December 2017
 

I read with interest your article on the Kent lorry park (‘Legal challenge brings axe down on Kent lorry park’ LTT24 Nov). I don’t support concreting over the countryside, so perhaps a method of managing lorries needs to be instigated that makes use of existing lorry parks, while reducing the need for an emergency facility close to the Channel ports.

Such a method could use ticketing data for ferries and the Channel Tunnel. At times of disruption to cross-Channel traffic, text...

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