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Does there even need to be a survey? This surely negatively affects any motorist from Maidstone to M20 East?

Why is the south east of Kent expected to carry this burden every month or so? It (obviously) impacts travel but also trade, quality of life, damage to roads-unlikely to be repaired promptly as well as the rubbish strewn in it's wake (unlikely to be collected). Junction 8 and all around Bearsted grinds to a halt when the A20 becomes gridlocked. How come we are so powerless?

This cannot continue to impact Kent citizens with no future plan nor recompense to Highways Agencies and Councils.

Dangerous Contraflow

I do not use the M20 when Brock is in place. I have found that when travelling westbound and sticking to the speed limit I am frequently harassed by a foreign truck driver inches from my rear bumper trying to force me to go faster. The truck driver knows he won't be prosecuted for speeding. This is no fun in a Fiat Panda! The resulting danger means that I choose to use the A20. I cannot access the M20 eastbound from junction 8 and junction 7 is out of my way, so I choose to use the A20.There seems to…

Everyone suffers

In 2022, it is shocking that this makeshift solution of freight traffic has been allowed to go on. Up until recently, I had to travel from Maidstone to Ashford to visit my mum, and was always aghast at the drivers rubbish in the verges of the roads. Seeing large plastic bottles of urine was the norm, coupled with all sorts of other rubbish. The problem is, the drivers are not at fault, they have a job to do, like us all, but are treated like animals, with next to no facilities while they are forced to wait in these long…

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