It is a really busy and difficult day again with those traffic queues across kent and here and dover. yesterday, the french let us down badly. it is good news they are manning those passport controls today, but the queues will still be considerable. the french are saying, at least some of them, that this is down to brexit, because now you have to have passports stamped as you leave the country, it is not free flowing any more. well, we had queues here at dover before we left the eu and of course we have queues now and we have to get on top of these queues which keep happening around our county, and that means more investment in the roads, it means more investments here at the ports. the ports have expanded the number of passport control centres that they have for people to go through. yesterday was the simple fact a number of french workers did not turn up for the job. that has resulted in those dreadful queues, problems in dover and problems for holiday makers. is this the new norm? i
We have 10,000 tourist vehicles booked to go outbound today. yesterday we handled about 8,500. we do have quite a significant backlog of lorries, mainly on the m20. it will take them a while to get through, but we are processing vehicles fairly smoothly right now so we are trying to get everyone away as quickly as possible. more from our correspondent in dover, simonjones. well, it is another really busy day here at the port of dover. they are expecting 10,000 tourist vehicles to pass through, that is more than yesterday when there were huge problems. also expecting 3000 lorries, but the queues have been building. the current advice is to allow at least four hours to get through the traffic on the outskirts of dover and through the traffic at the port, but the port says that the french passport controls are being adequately staffed so far today. let s talk now to the mp for dover, natalie elphicke. another difficult day for anyone trying to get across the channel?
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