A group of friends were in the car for a total of ten hours, leaving Bath at 3.30am and finally managing to board a ferry at 2pm after sitting in traffic since 7am
Two brothers travelling to the Motocross Grand Prix with their children said the five mile journey from their hotel to the port, which usually takes around eight minutes, had taken over four hours.
“Why aren’t they making it even?” Mr Jones asked, suggesting that the police already at the scene controlling traffic should manually direct cars from the A20 through the traffic.A family-of-four, who set off early this morning on a long journey from Peterborough to Portugal, were stuck in the car for over five hours when“I don’t know who I can blame.
“It’s definitely chaos. It’s not because of us, it’s because of the kids. We’ll survive I hope,” Mr Tabares said.spoke to them at 1pm, while they were still in standstill traffic. “It’s really frustrating but unfortunately it’s not just us, it’s hundreds of us,” he said. They have been in the car since 4am this morning when they set off from Coventry, and have been sitting in traffic since 7.30am.“And a pregnant lady,” Mrs Griffin added. “We’ve had to do a bit of running out of the car and hoping the queue hadn’t moved to go to the toilet.”said Mr Griffin. “Once we get to Center Parcs on the other side, the day will be a long forgotten memory hopefully.
“What are you going to do. Luckily we’ve got food, we’ve got hummus so we’re okay,” she said, explaining that they are simply looking forward to a family holiday in France.
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