Britons have been warned that there could be long delays over the Easter holidays, with more than 14 million journeys expected on the roads and construction work disrupting rail services.
The RAC has warned that journeys on popular routes could be twice as long as usual as many schools close for a two-week holiday over the bank holiday weekend.
Trains will also stop running as Network Rail carries out works on the West Coast Main Line between London Euston and Milton Keynes, which stretches from the capital to Scotland.
That section rail There will be closures between Good Friday and Easter Monday, with disruption also expected in Glasgow and Huddersfield.
Laurence Bowman, director of network strategy at Network Rail, said there was “never a good time to do the work we need to do”, but explained that there were fewer commuters over the bank holiday weekend, which gave them “the opportunity Do the main work we need to do”. You can’t do that on a normal weekend.”
He added: “We will be carrying out 493 different pieces of work this Easter, much of it overnight, including laying more than 8,000 meters of new track and laying over 40,000 tonnes of new ballast to support the track.”
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RAC spokesperson Alice Simpson also warned that there was a “possibility of crashes” over Easter and said it was serious transportation “Expect long queues on routes to the usual hotspots”.
Inrix traffic analyst Bob Pishue also said that “drivers should prepare for longer than usual journeys throughout the weekend.”
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A survey commissioned by the RAC and Inrix found 2.6 million journeys were planned for Good Friday, with around 2.3 million expected on Easter Saturday and Sunday.
Two million trips are expected on Thursday and Easter Monday, with a further 3.3 million trips yet to have a start date, for a total of around 14.5 million trips.
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Traffic conditions are expected to be heaviest between 2pm and 7pm on Thursday, when holiday travel will be mixed with regular commuting, Inrix forecasts.
It added that the busiest route would be the M25 west between the M23 at Gatwick and the M1 in Hertfordshire, with journeys starting at 4pm expected to take more than two hours, twice as long as usual many.
Congestion is also likely to occur on the M5 southbound between Bristol and Taunton and the M3 between the M25 and the South Coast, with journey times expected to be more than double normal, Inrix said.
The survey, conducted by research firm Find Out Now, surveyed 2,136 British adults.
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