By: Lian Zhu

Imagine traffic with thousands of cars. This incident was quite huge. As families traveled miles to go to France on the summer holidays, the families have to wait over seven hours just to cross the channel. Some families even had to sleep in their cars!

People that were going were waiting hours to get to the passport checking station to board a ferry.

However, Dover port authorities have successfully gotten about 72,000 passengers across the channel. That is a lot of people. The checkers have worked hours and hours to help the people going on summer holidays. The achievement of the 72,000 people pass was completed during the morning on Sunday.

Both the Port of Dover and the UK government blamed the situation on France. That was because that France said they didn’t have enough border staff.

The UK’s Foreign Secretary Liz Truss said it was unacceptable and a completely avoidable situation. But French MP Pierre-Henri Dumont claimed that these problems will keep just on happening because of Brexit, the withdrawal of the United Kingdom from the European Union.

He claimed, “This is an aftermath of Brexit. We have to run more checks than before.”

Ferry operators P&O started to advise travelers to bring snacks and water along so that they don’t need to leave extra time and miss their ferry.

That will be a lot of work to get all of the people what they want.