Operation Stack partly lifted — Travel misery latest

A Kent Police spokeswoman said: “Kent Police was called at 10.08am to a report of two casualties on the hard shoulder of the M20 London-bound between Junctions 2 and 1”.

Striking workers, protesting farmers and migrants in Calais are leaving drivers stranded on the M20 in queues formed as part of Operation Stack, costing the UK logistics industry £750,000 a day, according to the Freight Transport Association.

Among ideas likely to be included are a proposal to keep one lane open on the M20 for local traffic and an emergency relief area off the motorway where HGVs could be held until ferry services resume of the channel tunnel re-opens.

HGV traffic should proceed to Operation Stack on the M20 and not attempt to access the port from alternative routes. Continue on the A2 towards the coast, past Canterbury, on to Dover.

Stack is still on between junctions 8, at Bearsted, and 9, at Ashford, on the coastbound carriageway. At junction 8, non-HGV traffic is able to join the A20 coastbound via Harrietsham and Charing, to then re-join the motorway after junction 9.

The Home Secretary Theresa May was told this week that the continual use of Operation Stack was making the people of Kent feel “berserk”.