{"id":52802,"date":"2015-01-22T16:52:08","date_gmt":"2015-01-22T16:52:08","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/mostafa.openonline.co.uk\/?guid=23382a0f9177f32806d97b84ebedcb74"},"modified":"2015-01-22T16:52:08","modified_gmt":"2015-01-22T16:52:08","slug":"press-release-coastbound-m20-remains-closed-between-maidstone-and-ashford","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mostafa.openonline.co.uk\/?p=52802","title":{"rendered":"Press release: Coastbound M20 remains closed between Maidstone and Ashford"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"govspeak\">\n<p>At 2.30pm, today there was severe congestion between junctions 4 and 8 with delays of over 3 hours.<\/p>\n<p>Phase Two of Operation Stack was put in place due to reduced capacity at the Channel Tunnel, which has seen non-freight traffic diverted onto the A20 from junction 8 at Hollingbourne.<\/p>\n<p>Tourist traffic heading to the Port of Dover and local traffic are advised to use the M2\/A2 route to Dover to avoid the delays on the M20.<\/p>\n<p>Road users are advised to plan their journeys and allow extra time or find alternative routes.<\/p>\n<p>For updates, visit the <a rel=\"external\" href=\"http:\/\/www.kent.police.uk\/news\/latest_news\/000000_op_stack.html\">Kent Police webpage<\/a><\/p>\n<h4 id=\"advice-to-lorry-drivers-wishing-to-use-euro-tunnel-or-the-port-of-dover\">Advice to lorry drivers wishing to use Euro Tunnel or the Port of Dover<\/h4>\n<p>Kent Police is also reminding lorry drivers that those at the front of the queue will get a ticket to continue their journey to the continent. Those who use the diversions for non-freight traffic in an attempt to get closer to the front, and who do not have a ticket, will be sent to the back of the Op Stack queue.<\/p>\n<h4 id=\"general-enquiries\">General enquiries<\/h4>\n<p>Members of the public should contact the Highways Agency Information Line on 0300 123 5000.<\/p>\n<h4 id=\"media-enquiries\">Media enquiries<\/h4>\n<p>Journalists should contact the Highways Agency press office on 0844 693 1448 and use the menu to speak to the most appropriate press officer.\t<\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Road users are reminded that the coastbound M20 remains closed between junction 8 (Hollingbourne) and junction 9 (Ashford) as Operation Stack phase 2 is in place.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":8,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[13],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mostafa.openonline.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/52802"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mostafa.openonline.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mostafa.openonline.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mostafa.openonline.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/8"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mostafa.openonline.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=52802"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mostafa.openonline.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/52802\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mostafa.openonline.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=52802"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mostafa.openonline.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=52802"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mostafa.openonline.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=52802"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}