I intend to travel along the M4, M25, and M11 starting around dawn on Christmas Day, anyone know what the traffic is normally like?
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Anyone know what the traffic is normally like on Christmas Day?
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Ask JohnD. He spends more time in his car than he does on here.
i have never been around the north part of m25 on xmas day, in the late afternoon often travelled on the south part again many years ago.
I suspect it may be busier then expected, but if its around dawn, should be OK , I suspect a lot more travel particularly this year , as more people will be travelling to meet up at Christmas while they can, before any lockdown after xmas.
Boxing day on M25 is usually a nightmare, south side J9 around dartford tunnel.
For many years our in-laws travelled from chelmsford to Leatherhead on boxing day, and took them usually 3+hours that morning. And I travelled from Leatherhead to Maidstone around 8am on the day after boxing day and back around 10:30am picking up my mother , and it was always very very busy.
I suspect it may be busier then expected, but if its around dawn, should be OK , I suspect a lot more travel particularly this year , as more people will be travelling to meet up at Christmas while they can, before any lockdown after xmas.
Boxing day on M25 is usually a nightmare, south side J9 around dartford tunnel.
For many years our in-laws travelled from chelmsford to Leatherhead on boxing day, and took them usually 3+hours that morning. And I travelled from Leatherhead to Maidstone around 8am on the day after boxing day and back around 10:30am picking up my mother , and it was always very very busy.
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check for closures.
Xmas is a good time to close motorways for bridge demolition or similar
Xmas is a good time to close motorways for bridge demolition or similar
Thanks, amazingly there are no planned M4 closures over Christmas and New Year, but they restart on the 7 January!
Highways say they always try to have no on going works at holiday times.
Yep pretty quiet in my experience subject to possible closures as mentioned.
I left at 6.45 am, and there was very little traffic all the way, the density hardly changed all the way, however there was more traffic in the anti-clockwise direction on the M25, ie towards London Airport, but again not excessive.
EDIT: traveled back on Sunday 9 Jan, leaving at 8 am and there wasn’t much traffic then either.
EDIT: traveled back on Sunday 9 Jan, leaving at 8 am and there wasn’t much traffic then either.
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