The Operation Brock system installed to manage expected traffic chaos in Kent after Brexit will now itself cause a year of disruption as the barrier is moved from the edge to the middle of the motorway.
Operation Brock: Post-Brexit emergency lorry powers around Port of Dover to be made permanent
10/08/2021
The change means the emergency measure – which repurposes part of the M20 motorway as a lorry park – could be put back in place at any time.
KentLive conducted a straw poll in Dover of 50 people asking how they would vote if they could repeat 2016.
Intense traffic congestion around Dover is partly down to “Brexit scenarios”, according to the head of the British Ports Association.
A new system for monitoring non-EU travellers entering the bloc’s Schengen Area is scheduled to be implemented in April next year and may lead to delays of 17 miles, an industry insider warned today.
Fresh seafood and baby chicks will be the only goods allowed to skip hours-long customs queues at UK border
05/08/2020
The two perishable products have been exempted from rules on how to manage traffic approaching the port of Dover.
Police fear the fallout from a "no-deal" Brexit could lead to "wide-scale disruption and dangers for the general public" and have warned they may not have the resources to cope.
Dover staff say move could compromise security and leave border without protection.
Fears of dead chicks in lorries and 10 months of ports chaos detailed in new government document
04/08/2020
Emergency traffic measures to last until ‘end of October 2021’ – with a giant lorry park to hold 2,000 goods vehicles.
"A complete waste of time and money" - but it will take 48 hours to stand down Operation Brock.
M20 barriers removed as Operation Brock system is taken apart before 31 January.
Temporary steel barrier to be installed to allow lorries travelling to Europe to be held on the coastbound carriageway.
Government departments spent more than £4bn on preparations for leaving the EU, says the public spending watchdog.
Operation Brock to cause major disruption around M20 despite likelihood of extension from EU.
The latest £8m payout adds to the bill for a "sorry saga" which "encapsulates the Brexit mess perfectly".
Moveable concrete barrier to replace the chaotic Operation Brock no-deal Brexit system to manage traffic jams on the M20.
Council given only hours’ notice of emergency purchase of 1.2m sq ft ‘Mojo’ site.
'The idea that creating a fake traffic jam will show the EU we are ready for a no deal is just plain stupid'
Up to 150 lorries to be used in Kent test of government plans to cope with border disruption
A plan to manage traffic congestion on a Kent motorway has come into force as part of plans for a no-deal Brexit.
Long tailbacks as Brexit lorry operation to slow parts of major motorway to 30mph overruns
28/10/2019
Motorists brand works in preparation for potential no-deal queues ‘chaos’ and ‘complete waste of time’.
Food and drink supplies in the UK face more disruption after the end of the Brexit transition period than they did from Covid, the industry has said.
A 23-mile stretch of the M20 is closed amid HMRC technical problems and a ferry shortage.
'Kent deserves better than being turned into a car park because of Boris Johnson’s reckless unwillingness to take a no-deal off the table,' say Lib Dems.
More than 100 lorries have descended on a disused airfield in Kent to stage a massive fake traffic jam – all in the name of Brexit. The bizarre scene is a government test of its plans for UK border disruption in the event the UK leaves with no-deal.