Trafficmaster warns of congestion hotspots for half-term holiday
Trafficmaster, the intelligent driving solutions provider, has warned of the possible road congestion spots this coming Friday, as the half-term holiday approaches in England and Wales. Calling it “Black Friday”,Trafficmaster Data Manager, Graham Smith commented,”There are many different factors affecting traffic congestion at the moment. There has been an increase in congestion on some major routes usually associated with high levels of HGV movement, whilst the effects of the school run have added to journey times in the vicinty of urban areas”.
Combining this with the expected increase in traffic levels, as many families head off for the last break before Christmas,Trafficmaster expects traffic to build from around 10.00am onwards on Friday the 23rd October, with the busiest traffic at around 3.00pm.
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Before you set off on your journey on Friday you can always try the link to the Trafficmaster live traffic information map from the Comparecontracthire.com website. This link shows all the hotspots throughout the UK (courtesy of Trafficmaster) and you can quickly zoom in and out to any part of the UK to see where the problems are.
Trafficmaster’s top ten congestion hotspots for Black Friday are:
| Road | Section of road |
| M25 | Western Sector |
| M6 | Through the West Midlands and up to the North West |
| A303 | Through Wiltshire and Dorset |
| A3 | To Hindhead |
| A11 & A14 | To Elveden and East Anglia |
| M5 | To the South West |
| M3 & A31 | Towards Hampshire and the Dorset coast |
| M4 | Between London and Bristol and between the Severn Bridge and Cardiff |
| M56 & A55 | Into North Wales |
| M6 & M55 | To the Lake District and Blackpool |
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