The government’s cunning plan to stop lorries
at the Kent border after January 1st is clearly an effective way of
preventing an ever-growing queue in Kent. The government’s own estimates
suggest that the queue could contain 7,000 lorries, and at around 50+ feet long
(and in single file) that would easily lead to a 60+ mile long queue. Given
that the M20 along which most of them would be travelling is only about 50
miles long, even the most mathematically challenged minister (and that’s a
tough competition) could understand why action needed to be taken. I can’t help
wondering, though, how long it will be before any of them realise that swapping
a 60 mile queue in Kent for two 30 mile queues at the Kent border (one in
Surrey, the other in Essex) might not be as comprehensive a solution as they
seem to be assuming? I suppose that the 117-mile-long M25 could turn out to be
a cheaper lorry park than some of those being proposed.
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