contraflow

The last traffic cone and contraflow was removed from the A465 Heads of the Valleys road in south Wales on Friday night after a £2bn upgrade that started back in 2002.

A Freedom of Information response shows £473,196 has been spent on the traffic light contraflow since 2019.

Operation Brock sees lorries heading to Dover queue on one side of the M20, with the other carriageway operating as a contraflow.

In Kent, the traffic management system known as Operation Brock is in place, with lorries heading to Dover queuing on one side of the M20, while a contraflow system runs on the remaining carriageway.

The measures, known as Operation Brock, queue lorries heading to Dover on one side of the M20, while a contraflow system runs on the remaining carriageway.