Britain’s five busiest road sections revealed
The government has revealed the five busiest road sections in Great Britain, and it won’t surprise you to discover that four of them are on the M25.
Predictably, the stretch linking junction 14 at Heathrow Airport with the M4 at junction 15 is the most congested, with 219,000 vehicles using the section EVERY DAY in 2018.
Junction 13 at Staines to junction 14 is the next busiest road with 206,000 vehicles, with junction 15 to junction 16 for the M40 motorway next up with 201,000 vehicles.
The section linking junctions 12 and 13 completes the misery for motorists forced to use the M25 on a daily basis, with 193,000 vehicles hitting the short section every day.
Only the M1 between junction 9 for Rebourn and junction 8 for Hemel Hempstead manages to muscle in on the M...