Plans for a new £8.8 million slip-road off the A2 have been branded “absolutely daft” by critics who fear it will only make traffic issues worse. Fresh proposals for the long-awaited junction in Canterbury have recently been unveiled in the hope it will ease congestion in the area and on the city’s ring-road. But residents and businesses fear it will actually have the opposite effect and will snarl up the roads in and around Wincheap. The slip-road would bring Dover-bound motorists off the A2 near the Wincheap Retail Park and neighbouring park and ride. Allyson Nicholson-Taylor, who lives in W…