The Dover & Deal economy is all about transport. We have the busiest port in Western Europe, bringing thousands of lorries to our area. So why are the roads so inadequate? Why did the Labour Government do nothing about the dreadful Operation Stack? Why did the previous Labour MP raise the deathtrap A258 in Parliament back in 1997 and then fail to get action? And why was the desperately needed A2 dualling axed from the roads programme?
Local Conservatives are getting action:
- The A258 has been improved by Conservative controlled Kent County Council.
- Local Conservatives are pressing for lorry parks in place of Operation Stack
- Local Conservatives have a plan to free up the centre of Dover from lorries when the Western Docks are built.
- Only the Conservatives are ever likely to get the A2 dualled. The previous Labour MP tried, but his Government never seemed to listen to anything he has to say
- It is the Conservatives who are fighting Labour's port sell off and campaigning for the People's Port.
The Coalition Government has been ending the years of underinvestment in our community.
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Deal has a very poor transport, we need better roads and better train services. Only then will our economy prosper, its not rocket science!
- Sam Malloy
Good news about the A258, but you are missing the most important issue for Deal for over two decades - the high speed trains. Without them the town will dwindle away as people move to economic hotspots like Folkestone and Ashford.
- John
In the light of recent events in the ferry industry locally, and considering the damage it will do to the area, I am opposed to the Western Docks development. It will take away another vast area of the harbour, ruining the view from the western end of the promenade and closing the Prince of Wales Pier. It will also mean the loss of the few remaining relics of the Pier District: the former Lord Warden Hotel; the Cinque Ports Arms public house and the former Harbour Station, and also block access to the Admiralty Pier and Shakespeare Beach. If there really is still a need for more ferry traffic over the next decade, why can some of it not be diverted to Ramsgate, where the port and the infrastructure needs little improvement to handle more of the load?
- Bill Beer
Is it just me that wonders what the "Road Tax\Road Fund License\Vehicle Excise Duty" is actually paying for? I was mistaken in thinking it was to be used to maintain the infrastructure of our road networks and then I realised this was also found in Insurance tax, taxes on fuel, parking and congestion fees. “The government spends only about one-third (£12,752 million) of its total tax revenue from road users (£43,885 million) on roads and local public transport.” IAM, July 11th 2011 So at what point, as my car bounces over another pothole is it reasonable to wonder what the chancellor of the exchequer has spent it on this time? The fundamentals of sound infrastructure to the good running of our country goes without saying, if nothing continues to get done about it then we will all have to but 4x4 cars and drive on what is quickly becoming dirt tracks (especially over military hill). Perhaps that is the governments intention? It would after-all increase their revenues and probably their bonuses........
- Ian Palmer