Dover port's CEO warns that even more vehicles will try to travel today than during Friday's critical incident It took drivers hours to get through during yesterday's chaos
Dover expects traffic to be even busier than on Friday, when a critical incident was declared.Traffic at the Port of Dover is expected to be even busier on Saturday as fears mount of another day of more severe delays after a "critical incident" was declared yesterday.Friday saw holidaymakers get stuck in six-hour queues as officials in Britain and France traded accusations in a blame game, and today motorists have already hit waits of more than two hours.
"I don't know what the exact timings are, earlier this morning it was taking us about 35 minutes to clear one of the lanes of traffic, so that's roughly about what it would do now," he said. Saturday is the first weekend of the summer holidays for most of England and Wales, where the majority of schools have broken up for the summer.
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