{"id":1152,"date":"2019-03-27T10:11:48","date_gmt":"2019-03-27T09:11:48","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/estates-transport-news\/?p=1152"},"modified":"2019-03-27T14:45:56","modified_gmt":"2019-03-27T13:45:56","slug":"operation-brock-in-place","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/estates-transport-news\/2019\/03\/27\/operation-brock-in-place\/","title":{"rendered":"Operation Brock in place"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Operation Brock is a new system to queue lorries on the M20 while allowing general traffic to flow, in preparation for potential cross-channel delays caused by Brexit.<\/p>\n<p>Since Monday 25 March, Operation Brock has been in place on the M20 between junctions 8 and 9. Operation Brock queues lorries bound for mainland Europe on the coast bound M20, and uses a contraflow on the London bound carriageway allowing traffic to travel in both directions. There are two lanes in each direction with a 50mph speed limit in place.<\/p>\n<p>There are different <a href=\"https:\/\/highwaysengland.co.uk\/OperationBrock\/\">phases of Operation Brock<\/a>. Later phases include directing lorries to Manston Airfield if the section of the M20 becomes full, and then using a section of the M26 if the airfield also reaches capacity.<\/p>\n<p>The new system is an alternative to Operation Stack, which closes sections of the M20 and diverts traffic to other routes.<\/p>\n<p>For more information about Operation Brock, visit the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.gov.uk\/government\/news\/operation-brock-ready-for-action?utm_source=452f0d88-0cc2-4c8c-8d56-50df7a881885&amp;utm_medium=email&amp;utm_campaign=govuk-notifications&amp;utm_content=immediate\">Government website<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Operation Brock is a new system to queue lorries on the M20 while allowing general traffic to flow, in preparation for potential cross-channel delays caused by Brexit. Since Monday 25 March, Operation Brock has been in place on the M20 between junctions 8 and 9. Operation Brock queues lorries bound for mainland Europe on the [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":40853,"featured_media":1155,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[145923,124],"tags":[213301,213302,213304,213303,213305],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/estates-transport-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1152"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/estates-transport-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/estates-transport-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/estates-transport-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/40853"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/estates-transport-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1152"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/estates-transport-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1152\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1154,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/estates-transport-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1152\/revisions\/1154"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/estates-transport-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1155"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/estates-transport-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1152"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/estates-transport-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1152"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/estates-transport-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1152"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}