Motorways are not lorry parks

Nothing about Op Brock is positive for residents. It impacts every journey even when it is running as it was designed. As others have pointed out every journey at best is longer. When the motorway is closed completely I never attempt it having had to turn back and abandon plans previously. This is not traffic management as described, it is pandering to the port and eurotunnel. They must know their capacity so why take bookings when they know they cannot accommodate the traffic? Airlines cancel flights at a moments notice so it cannot be impossible to cancel ferry and train tickets. It is grossly unfair to local residents, who must run into hundreds of thousands, and travellers alike. It is refreshing that someone holding a political position has raised this on behalf of residents as I hear nothing of any substance from any of the local MPs. I don't think I have ever heard Helen Grant say anything, in parliament or elsewhere, about this issue that must affect every one of her constituents in some way. Clearly, a lorry park or parks of sufficient size is required but suitable land is becoming scarce due to the vast amount of house building. What happened to Manston that vast amounts of money was spent on? It is surely up to the ports and Eurotunnel to fund such parking facilities.