The M4 and M5 are among the most disrupted roads in the UK and planned roadworks are set to cause hundreds of days of delays in the next three years.
Of the 107 A-roads and motorways in Britain, the M5 is the second worst for roadworks, according to research by commercial vehicle supplier Van Monster, while the M4 is fifth-most disrupted.
The report, which uses Highways England data and traffic data from the Department of Transport, looked at current on-going works and planned improvements until 2021.
There are 60 roadwork projects planned for the M5 that will cause a whopping 288 days’ worth of delays in the next three years.
That is 37,468,658 journeys that will be impacted.
Meanwhile, the M4 has 35 sets of roadworks planned, with 124 days of delays. That’s a shocking 19,720,136 journeys affected.
A total of 830 projects are currently planned across the UK.
However, the motorways near Bristol are nowhere near as bad as the North West, which will suffer the most delays of all.
There are 161 planned projects over the coming three years in the North West, resulting in 1,152 days of potential delays to motorists.
On the other hand, drivers in the East Midlands face the fewest potential delays, with just 91 projects currently planned in that region.
This amounts to just 123 days that drivers might be delayed, largely due to projects planned along the portion of the M1 that stretches past Leicester and Nottingham.
