Christmas getaway traffic warning as stretch of M6 motorway named delay hot-spot
manchestereveningnews.co.ukUK drivers are expected to make 21 million leisure trips between Monday and Christmas Eve - with a stretch of the M6 motorway in Greater Manchester named as a delay hot-spot.
Getaway traffic will climb slowly at the start of the week before jumping from 2.2 million trips on Thursday to 3.2 million on Friday, the last working day before Christmas Day, the RAC said.
Some 13.5 million leisure journeys by car are expected between Friday and Christmas Eve, up 20 per cent on the equivalent period last year.
Congestion is likely to peak on Friday as drivers embarking on getaway trips compete for road space with commuters and business traffic. READ MORE: Man who died after car crashed into ditch off M62 is named as heartfelt tributes paid READ MORE: 'I thought we'd been bombed - everyone was screaming!' Transport analysis company Inrix warned there are likely to be “daily delays of around 40 minutes” between Friday and Christmas Eve on the M25 clockwise west of London.
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