- M20 could become a semi-permanent lorry park if no Brexit deal reached
- HGVs heading to Dover Port would get held on M20 as part of contingency plan
- Police plan sees trucks park-up on the motorway creating 3,000 ‘spaces’
- The initiative is currently used when the Port, which has just 550 spaces for HGVs, is interrupted by bad weather, strikes or power outages
Transport Secretary, Chris Grayling:
“We already have provision in place for Operation Stack around the border at the moment. We have the whole of Manston Airfield available to use if Operation Stack is needed when the Channel ports don’t function.
“We’re now doing detailed work to look at how we take those arrangements forward in 2019 if we need them.
“We have got contingency plans in place for delays around the lorry ports right now but what we’re working on is making sure we’ve got developed plans for 2019. We will have those in place.”
Is Operation Stack the answer to the parking problems at Dover?
