The significant closure is likely to affect more than 200,000 travellers across the weekend
March 16, 2024 10:03 amafter a huge portion of Britain’s busiest motorway was shut down late Friday night.
The closure, which is in place to allow a bridge to be demolished, is likely to affect more than 200,000 travellers across the weekend – many of them trying to make their way in and out of London.National Highways said the route would run northbound A3 to Painshill Junction, A245 towards Woking, and then A320 to M25 junction 11 between junction 10 to junction 11.
Google Traffic – which calculates congestion by crowdsourcing location data from Google Maps users – alerted to significant traffic entering Byfleet and between Addlestone and Weybridge. Providing an update on the situation this morning, National Highways South-East wrote on X: “Delays building on approach to the closure at J10 approx. 2 miles of congestion.”
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