The Daily Observer London Desk: Reporter- Kathryn Williams
Britain’s slowest roads, the worsts stretches for delays and repairs have been revealed in a list of ‘hellish highways’.
Experts revealed the slowest stretch of major road in the country, with an average speed throughout 2022 of just 8.4mph, is a 1.2mile section of the A49 in Shropshire.
That same stretch is also the nation’s most delayed as motorists lose 305 seconds, or more than five minutes per mile there on average.
That’s more than 40 seconds per mile more than the next worst, a 1500m stretch of the A627(M) outside Rochdale, where traffic averagely crawls at 10.1mph.
In third place was a stretch of road in Surrey – the A30 eastbound between M25 and A308 which had an average speed of 10.6mph.
The research was analysed by Forbes Advisor who looked at the slowest, most delayed and worst maintained roads in England by using Department for Transport data to pinpoint where in the country motorists are most likely to be held up for the longest time and move at the slowest average speeds.
A map showing the 10 slowest stretches of road in England following analysis by Forbes Advisor
