Traffic chaos escalated between Britain and the mainland after a freight train crashed into the tunnel on Monday and lost a track during repairs at the site. guardian. This forced those who attempted to cross the undersea channel into another hour of waiting. However, there are more and more of them after PO Ferry unexpectedly announced two weeks of service restrictions and killed eight hundred people, then the remaining ferry traffic was loaded over the weekend due to the disruption and interruption of one of its flights. bigger ships. Of course, this also required the combination of several unfortunate factors over the weekend: on the one hand, the weather was not suitable for sea travel, and on the other hand, after the British finally allowed unrestricted travel two years after the Covid lockdown, many planned for the Easter holiday in the outside. Part of the several-hour wait was again spent on the M2 by trucks waiting to cross over the weekend as per the Brexit protocol.
sokan right Now This is why they would have chosen the Eurotunnel on Monday, but because the freight train had broken down, they had to wait three to four hours on the British side and an hour in Calais to cross. Eurotunnel promised to restore traffic late on Monday afternoon, until then at reduced capacity.