 Operation Stack is enforced when ferry services are disrupted |
Calls are being made for the main road into Dover to be upgraded because the M20 is so often used to park lorries. Kent Police used junctions 10 to 12 of the motorway on Thursday for Operation Stack after a strike at Calais closed the port and halted ferries.
Paul Watkins, leader of Dover District Council, said because the M20 is used so frequently for the operation the other route into Dover needs widening.
"Every time this happens we lose the major motorway into Dover," he said.
Sailngs halted
"You have to use torturous routes through the old A20 to get round this part of east Kent.
"The case for the A20 dualling is now very strong and the government ought to be listening."
Dover's two largest ferry firms halted sailings on Thursday after the strike by French seaman over ferry employment regulations.
As a result, lorries were parked on the M20 heading into the town waiting for the ferries to begin sailing again.
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