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West routes are set to be hit by a delay 'hat-trick'
Western Daily Press
|April 14, 2025
RIVERS face a “hat-trick of hold-ups” as the bank holiday weekend coincides with the end of the Easter holidays for many schools, a motoring organisation warned.
The RAC said traffic will be “equally severe” on Thursday, Good Friday and Saturday, with an estimated 2.7 million leisure trips by car planned across the UK each day.
More than 19 million leisure journeys are planned between Thursday and Easter Monday, including 6.2 million which drivers intend to make over the period but are unsure on the exact day.
Transport analytics company Inrix predicted delays of more than an hour on the 35-mile stretch of the M25 from Junction 7 for Gatwick airport to Junction 16 for the M40 on Thursday.
It also highlighted the M6 north of Chester and the M25 clockwise towards Godstone, Surrey, as likely traffic hotspots that day.
On Good Friday, the lengthiest hold-ups are expected to be between 11am and 1pm.
This story is from the April 14, 2025 edition of Western Daily Press.
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