Motorists faced traffic chaos after rail strikes forced Boxing Day bargain-hunters and football fans onto the roads. Some motorway traffic crawled along at just 15mph, with an estimated 15.2 million cars hitting the roads today.
Motorists faced traffic chaos after rail strikes forced Boxing Day bargain-hunters and football fans onto the roads.
AA said delays were building as early as 10am, with ‘some serious delays on the M25 and the M6’ by noon. He went on: ‘When you look up the west side of the M25 and then up the M1, and then particularly from the north of Birmingham up the M6, it has been pretty unpleasant at midday.Many people flocked to London’s Oxford Street for Boxing Day sales ‘We expected heavy traffic but when you see it in reality, where the traffic information is talking about traffic moving at 20mph and 15mph, it just indicates unpleasant traffic conditions for anyone travelling on those particular motorways.
This morning saw the UK high streets’ footfall rise by 59.4% from December 26 last year, according to industry analyst Springboard.Diane Wehrle, insights director at Springboard, said a likely factor in the increase was Boxing Day 2021 fell on a Sunday rather than a weekday, but added that the latest figures ‘provide real reason for optimism amongst retailers’.
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