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.
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Operation Brock: update 17 April 2019
Two weeks after it arrived it went away... but not completely.
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Operation Brock 27 March 2019
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.
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The stack is back 21 May 2018
Just a few years ago Kent was going to be saved from Operation Stack. Now it's back with a vengeance.
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East Street blues 12 June 2017
In August 2016, East Street bridge was struck and collapsed. What's left behind when you demolish half a bridge?
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M20 Bridge Collapse 29 August 2016
A footbridge collapses onto a live motorway - how? And is it safe?
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Operation Stack 30 August 2015
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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Reigate Tunnel 6 February 2010
Oxfordshire Signs 9 January 2010
This is the story of one man at Oxfordshire County Council who pre-empted the development of modern road signs - much to the annoyance of the men from the Ministry.
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Mickleham Bends 28 June 2009
Once it was one of the UK's most dangerous roads — just what is so special about a bit of dual carriageway in Surrey?
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EuroRoute 14 October 2006
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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