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Impact on the NHS community services

On the 26th July a 15 minute journey took me over an hour because of all the Brock/TAP/Chunnel/port chaos. I work in the community for the NHS. Appointments were cancelled by patients and staff who just couldn’t physically get to appointments in the local area.

Enough is enough now. Given how many years we have had OpStack before Brock, someone in government should have had a better solution by now.
It impacts the local shops, health services and no one cares!

Freda Freestone

I live in Broomfield,and operation brock causes our village a lot more traffic coming through,it’s a single track road and it becomes so congested by all sorts of vehicles that it becomes gridlocked.People don’t read the signs properly ,there is a weight restriction and they don’t care,they just see it as a short cut to avoid the traffic jams.because these drivers are not local they just will not give way,at the passing places.this causes the traffic all to gridlock.

Unsustainable

Commuting through operation Brock has meant I have had to get up significantly earlier (I now have to leave the house at 5am rather than 7.30) so that I can avoid the traffic it causes especially with the number of breakdowns or accidents, or just poor traffic management whereby all traffic comes to a standstill. I have never seen so much disruption to the running of the motorways, and with no leeway and no hard shoulder for miles and miles it is very dangerous. People try to avoid this using other means such as the a20 which now gets very…

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