August 9th - Keeping a lid on delays at Dover
At the start of the last school summer holidays, a delay in staffing the border posts and severe traffic congestion in east Kent led to extreme delays
Simon Calder's Independent Travel Podcast · The Independent
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Show Notes
I've been in Dover talking with the port's chief executive, Doug Bannister, who says additional staffing and expanded facilities have proved effective in keeping a lid on delays.
“The numbers are turning up as we expected they would,” he said. “And the ‘dwell times’ we have had before border controls have only once reached the maximum peak we had warned people might be the case.”
It comes after some motorists faced delays of 12 hours or more in July 2022 as the first big post-Covid getaway came into conflict with new post-Brexit passport rules.
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