Baroness Randerson – 2016 Parliamentary Question to the Department for Transport

The below Parliamentary question was asked by Baroness Randerson on 2016-10-03.

To ask Her Majesty’s Government whether they have considered upgrading the M20 or the A2/M2 as an alternative to the establishment of a permanent lorry area near Junction 11 of the M20.

Lord Ahmad of Wimbledon

Highways England carried out an assessment of alternative options for a solution to Operation Stack and this considered increasing the overall capacity and resilience of Kent’s motorway network. The alternatives were included in a public consultation held between December 2015 and January 2016.

Overall, a lorry area was the best performing option and this was stated in the report on the consultation which can be found at:

https://www.gov.uk/government/consultations/management-of-freight-vehicles-through-kent and is attached for ease of reference.

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