Highways Agency lifts roadworks for Christmas

[HEXUS]

Even the Highways Agency gets into the Christmas spirit as it suspends roadworks throughout the country to help ease journeys during the Christmas and New Year holiday.

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[Steven W]

Perfect timing! I'm heading down to Essex for Xmas Can't wait for the deep vein thrombosis to set in after being trapped in the car for hours.

[kopite]

Does that mean they are just gonna pull up the roadworks or make sure that the roads are ok first?

We`ll end up with no roadworks but half the road missing

[Workaholic]

To help ease our journeys, the Highways Agency has completed or suspended nearly two thirds of all major roadworks. Thirty-four sets of roadworks have been completed and a further eighteen are being suspended in an effort to make Christmas travel as smooth as possible.

Sonds like they're not doing anymore major work, or cordoning off more roads/lanes!

[TheAnimus]

but if your half way through resurfacing a lane of the m5, what do you do, you just keep the cones out and do no work. Call me a skeptic, but i smell an alistar campbel.

[Workaholic]

A week later and for those in Manchester, who know the works outside Heaton Park, they have appeared to stop.

A couple of days ago the road scared me as a white van on the left of me swerved out into me (causing me to brake) and then I noticed that they did so to avoid the barriers that had blown over, these weren't put back upright till 3 days later....

The last few days I've been extra careful here to make sure my new car doesn't hit the barriers and scratch my new car!