Bye bye Brock 3 February 2020
No tears will be shed in Kent for the end of Operation Brock, the much-hated contraflow that turned the M20 into a semi-permanent lorry park.
No tears will be shed in Kent for the end of Operation Brock, the much-hated contraflow that turned the M20 into a semi-permanent lorry park.
Two weeks after it arrived it went away... but not completely.
A £30m plan to keep traffic moving while using 13 miles of motorway as a lorry park has just been implemented - and it might be here for a while.
Just a few years ago Kent was going to be saved from Operation Stack. Now it's back with a vengeance.
In August 2016, East Street bridge was struck and collapsed. What's left behind when you demolish half a bridge?
A footbridge collapses onto a live motorway - how? And is it safe?
If there's trouble crossing the Channel, you'll see the lorries queuing on the M20. What is Operation Stack? Why does it cause so much trouble? And why, more than twenty years after it started, are we still using it?
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Today you can catch a train to France. You can even put your car on it, and be there in less than an hour. But in the 1980s, Euro Tunnel had competition - including plans to build a motorway across the English Channel.
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