MPs say government is rushing into building £250m Kent lorry park

Transport Committee raises concerns over scale and cost of project in Operation Stack report

The government is right to seek a solution to the level of disruption caused by Operation Stack, but the House of Commons Transport Committee says more should be done to demonstrate that the proposal to spend £250m on a lorry park would deliver a viable solution.

The Transport Committee’s report on Operation Stack says the government’s decision to proceed at pace with building a lorry park had left behind some of the usual best practice required when spending such large...

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