Travel chaos LATEST: Dover queues causing ‘holiday hell’ on Eurotunnel plus cancelled flights update and train strikes
QUEUES are building at the Channel Tunnel this morning as Britain braces for a hellish week of disruption to rail, road & airline services.
Simultaneous walkouts and chaos will cripple Britain’s transport infrastructure during the first official week of summer holidays for most schools.
Traffic jams swamped the Eurotunnel car terminal in Folkestone, Kent, after part of the M20 was shut to park 600 lorries.
It was a knock-on from the nightmare that gripped the Port of Dover on Friday and Saturday with ferries struggling to clear the freight backlog.
Ferry operator DFDS told Dover passengers that there were “queues of around an hour” for French border checks this morning as they issued travel advice.
They advised passengers to “allow a minimum of 120 minutes before your departure to complete all controls” amid reports queues had eased.
Toby Howe, senior highways manager at Kent County Council and tactical lead at Kent Resilience Forum, said the current queues at the Port of Dover were “normal for a Monday morning”.
Meanwhile, more than 40,000 workers at Network Rail will strike on Wednesday after no breakthrough in talks, the RMT union has announced.
And workers at Chiltern Railways, GWR, LNER, London Overground, Northern, Southeastern, TransPennine, and West Midlands will all walk out on Saturday, July 30.
In a further blow to Brits, Ryanair will also strike this week.
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