Transport

NHS staff are preparing to transport patients using two London buses that have been converted into makeshift ambulances, in another sign of the strain Covid is putting on the capital’s health services.more

In a bid to help as many people as possible get a vaccine, Uber will offer free door-to-door trips to seven mass vaccination centres in England. more

British lorry drivers crossing the Channel to France will be exempt from requiring a PCR coronavirus test, the transport secretary has indicated. Grant Shapps said PCR tests would be required for passengers but hauliers could use the lateral flow system. more

Łódź is again at the top of the ranking of the most congested cities in Poland - indicated in the annual TomTom Traffic Index report. As a result of the pandemic, significant drops in traffic intensity were recorded in all Polish cities. more

National Express has revealed it is to suspend its entire national network of scheduled coach services due to the UK’s third national lockdown.more

Transport for London (TfL) has issued guidance on who can use the London Underground, trains or London buses during lockdown based on the Government rules and when is best to do so.more

Taxi corporations have declared that drivers will work normally on New Year's Eve in Poland, "Gazeta Wyborcza" reported today in the materials before New Year's Eve "Taxi and Uber will help you. The restrictions will not apply to transport," the newspaper notes.more

British Deputy Foreign Minister Wendy Morton today thanked Poland for helping to conduct coronavirus tests on drivers waiting to cross the English Channel to France.more

Media incl. in Great Britain, Spain and Portugal noticed the participation of Polish soldiers and doctors in helping with the tests of truck drivers waiting in England for the crossing of the English Channel, and the assistance provided to drivers, among others by British Polonia. "As a Spaniard, I can only say that I envy the Poles," said the popular Spanish blogger Elentir.more

Drivers who test positive for the coronavirus will not have to cover the cost of quarantine in a hotel in Rochester, said the Polish Embassy in London, citing the British Office of Foreign Affairs, Community and Development (FCDO).more

A group of Polish soldiers, including members of the Territorial Defense Forces, began testing for coronavirus yesterday evening on truck drivers who are waiting to leave the UK for France.more

More than 4,500 trucks have already crossed the English Channel to France since it reopened its border on Wednesday, British Transport Minister Grant Shapps announced yesterday evening.more

Hundreds of military personnel have been deployed to help clear the backlog of about 5,000 lorries, which are waiting at Manston Airport. Drivers are allowed to travel on the condition they test negative for Covid-19 before boarding a train or ferry. Transport Secretary Grant Shapps said more than 10,000 tests had been done. He said out of those lorry drivers who had been tested, 24 were positimore

A further 800 British military personnel have been sent to Kent to help ... traffic can begin to move at a closer to normal pace through Dover. more

Doctors, paramedics, nurses and diagnosticians sent from Warsaw by plane to Great Britain to help truck drivers who were stranded in the UK and unable to enter France started working inside. They’re testing for the SARS-CoV-2 coronavirus.more

The first Polish drivers, who have been waiting for several days, have the opportunity to cross the English Channel, are already in France - the Polish Embassy in London announced today in the early afternoon on social media.more

Polish consuls in Great Britain brought food and water to Polish drivers waiting in Kent to cross the English Channel on Wednesday evening.more

"No water, toilets, no Covid tests and no help from the Polish authorities in Great Britain. Only frustration, great exhaustion and chaos" - this is how the situation in Dover looked like today, according to the wife of one of the Polish truck drivers.more

Germany's Lufthansa is airlifting fresh fruit and vegetables to the UK on Wednesday as firms seek to beat the lorry chaos at sea ports.more

Tesco has introduced purchasing limits on some products including eggs, rice, soap and toilet roll.more

The Polish embassy and consulates in Great Britain provide assistance to drivers waiting to enter France. Although France opened its border at midnight, it will take several days to discharge the traffic jams that have arisen since Sunday.more

Scuffles broke out in Dover as lorry drivers stranded at the Kent port clashed with police. Several thousand lorries have been stuck after France stopped them crossing the Channel due to the new variant of coronavirus in the UK.more

Rail, air and sea services between the UK and France are resuming this morning after the French government agreed to ease its travel ban over Covid fears.more

The agreement between the United Kingdom and France to resume freight traffic through the English Channel will be announced in the coming hours and will enter into force tomorrow, the British Sky News reported today.more

French commentators express their satisfaction that the Europeans were able to coordinate quickly in the face of the coronavirus mutation discovered in England. Quoting mainly British sources, they admit that Paris plays the first fiddle in the blockade of the United Kingdom.more