Alternatives
Several options are being considered instead of closing the motorway. They include:
- To try to combat the disruption, parking the lorries on the Kent County Showground at Detling has been discussed by the Highways Agency, but locals are opposed because the area is very congested with traffic.
- In 2005, the Dover Harbour Board unveiled a plan to create a lorry park for 1500 vehicles with construction beginning in 2006.
- In February 2007, it was revealed that Kent County Council has been talking to landowners about buying land for a lorry park.
- There has been a suggestion from Shepway District Council for a lorry park to the North East of the roundabout at Junction 11, which would be supported by associated development within the Stanford and Lympne areas.
- A coned contraflow system has been discussed and trialled on the 10.5 miles (16.9 km) motorway section between Ashford and Maidstone, to relieve the pressure on the A20, however it proved costly and slow to arrange, taking two days to set up and two days to remove afterwards. However, the Highways Agency have announced a plan to use Quick Movable Barriers to set up a Contraflow so that two running lanes of traffic on the M20 can be maintained.
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