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The joint second worst days for traffic jams over the 2024 festive period are expected to be Saturday December 21 and Monday December 23, each with 22.7 million drivers on the road.
Junction 15 of the M5 is a large four-level stack interchange, named the Almondsbury Interchange, where the M5 meets the M4. The Avonmouth Bridge , between junctions 18 and 19, is often a bottleneck during heavy traffic periods, due mainly to lane drops at either end of the bridge for the respective junctions, and the sharp angle in the centre ...
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The interchange handles high volumes of traffic especially in the morning and evening rush hours. [6] [4] It is overlooked by the RAC Tower.Traffic travelling northbound on the M5 from Portishead intending to use the Second Severn Crossing (or, in the opposite sense, vehicles eastbound on the crossing wishing to use the M5 southbound from Avonmouth onwards) can bypass the interchange by using ...
A report by consultants Balfour Beatty-Mott McDonald into warning systems on the motorway in April 2010 recommended the Highways Agency automate the fog warning system. The system then in place was manually activated, using CCTV imagery or relying on the police notifying the agency. No such reports had been received on the night of the crash ...
Coordinates (West end); (East end); General information; Type: Motorway: Length: 28.8 km (18 mi) [1]: Opened: 1992–94 (Prestons–Beverly Hils) 2001 (Beverly Hills–Mascot): Gazetted: June 1993 [2]: Route number(s): M5 (2013–present): Former route number: Metroad 5 (1993–2013): Major junctions; West end: Hume Motorway Prestons, New South Wales: : Westlink M7; Hume Highway; Fairford Road ...
Strensham services are located slightly to the north of M5 junction 8, the exit slip road from the southbound area merges into the slip road from the M5 to junction 8, so traffic must negotiate junction 8 to rejoin the M5. Northbound the service area is about 1 mile (1.6 km) of the junction.
The Avonmouth Bridge is a road bridge that carries the M5 motorway over the River Avon into Somerset near Bristol, England.The main span is 538 ft (164 m) long, and the bridge is 4,554 ft (1,388 m) long, with an air draught above mean high water level of 98.4 ft (30 m).