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The M5 is predicted to be “one of many worst roads for delays within the nation” all through the financial institution vacation weekend.
The motorway had greater than 30 miles of tailbacks between Bristol and Taunton, Somerset, earlier as folks travelled south for the weekend.
Traffic monitoring website Inrix confirmed journey time between junction J16 (The M4 interchange) and J20 (Clevedon) at about 80 minutes for a number of hours, however this has now cleared.
A National Highways spokesperson stated the “extreme delays” of greater than an hour have been on account of “to the sheer quantity of site visitors”. More delays are anticipated Saturday.
RAC Breakdown spokesperson Alice Simpson stated: “With the top of the college holidays quick approaching it appears day journeys would be the major reason behind site visitors this weekend, so for a lot of drivers it might be a case of ‘day journey delays’.”
New analysis from the RAC exhibits the weekend is because of be the busiest August Bank Holiday in 9 years with an estimated 19.2 million leisure journeys taken by automotive.
The breakdown service is anticipating the M5 to be “one of many worst roads for delays within the nation” on each Friday and Saturday, particularly southbound between J15 and J23, as effectively northbound between J25 and J15 on Monday with returning site visitors.
