- Aug 18, 2014
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I realise lorries must be stacked, but why must the motorways be closed. In France they are stacked down the hard shoulder, then the inside lane while other traffic runs smoothly down the outside! Start nearest the tunnel then as it fills move back a junction. The lorries first to arrive were then first to leave, not like the chaos on M20 with police cars escorting lorries stacked J8-9 past later arrivals!
Because it comes under the same EU regulation as road works & which in the UK requires that moving traffic is separated from the " workforce" by a clear 2m buffer zone. By using the hard shoulder & the outside lane whoever invented the idea has ensured that under UK regulations , the whole Mway has to be shut.
If they did use the hard shoulder & inside lane you could then use the middle lane as the buffer & traffic could flow down the outside lane. This wouldn't happen though as obviously they would want to use the middle lane for the tea delivery & for the all the other wasters to ponce about up & down,
When you consider that it is costing the UK 250million a day you'd think that
they 'd come up with a way to ensure that the French strikers only ever did it once.