Gosh, I wonder if this is literally all the UK's fault.
While Brexit deserves all the ire it gets and more, this situation at least seems to be heavily impacted by the French strikes and weather making some trains break down.
The UK is still ran by incompetent morons for sure, though. Seems that's the most common type of politician these days.
Per the article, the strike certainly seems to be dramatically affecting the trains, but once people get their cars off the train or ferry, there are long waits for border controls, which of course the British could have avoided altogether by not doing something as stupid as Brexit.
Off topic, but could someone ELIF why the lanes are all strictly partitioned right up until just before the booths, where they open into a free-for-all, with fewer booth lanes than there were partitioned lanes? How does this not lead to road rage, fist fights, and accidents, causing even more delays?
This is just a guess: at the end of each partitioned lane there's two red lights. On the far right side, you can see a little green light on one of them, with cars exiting from that side. I'm guessing they're controlling when each lane gets to merge into the final booths, so it's not as much of a free-for-all.
Well, that's better. But none of these that I've had to drive through have light-controlled merges. They haven't had the barriers, either, but still more driving lanes than toll-booth lanes.
This is the best summary I could come up with:
Travellers crossing the Channel at the Port of Dover are facing long queues as disruption to the Christmas getaway continues across the UK.
An unscheduled strike by French Eurotunnel workers in a row over bonuses the day before led to the cancellation of about 30 Eurostar trains – leaving tens of thousands of travellers scrambling to replan their journeys.
The Elizabeth line on the underground had severe delays on Friday afternoon between London Paddington, Reading and Heathrow airport stations after two trains broke down.
Yellow wind warnings had been issued for those regions, advising people to expect travel disruption and damage to buildings and power cuts.
Rod Dennis, an RAC spokesperson, said: “With this latest weather warning affecting a large area of Scotland and parts of northern England, there is the chance travellers’ last-minute getaway trips could be disrupted.”
Network Rail advised travellers to check timetables before they embarked on their journeys as “some train services will be affected while we work to improve the railway”.
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