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M25 closures: National Highways boss tells drivers to ‘decorate the bathroom or something’ as the motorway’s first full weekend closure starts TODAY

andrean, 30/08/2024

  • A 5-mile stretch between J10 and J11 will close from 9pm Friday until 6am Monday
  • The £317million project is due to be completed in the summer of 2025

By Lettice Bromovsky

Published: 01:02 GMT, 15 March 2024 | Updated: 12:09 GMT, 15 March 2024

National Highways has told drivers to ‘decorate the bathroom or something’ while the M25 is closed for a full weekend for the first time.

A five-mile stretch of the motorway in both directions between junctions 10 and 11 will be closed from 9pm tonight until 6am on Monday morning, to allow engineers to safely demolish a bridge and install a new overhead gantry.

The £317million project due to be completed in the summer of 2025 will see four more closures of the ring road occur before September.

While urging people not to travel, Jonathan Wade, project leader at National Highways, said: ‘Please, if you can either avoid traveling completely, find something to do at home – decorate the bathroom or something, or play in the garden.’

Jonathan Wade, senior project manager, during a site visit ahead of the planned closure

Jonathan Wade, senior project manager, during a site visit ahead of the planned closure

National Highways has issued an alert as it braces to shut a five-mile stretch of the motorway between junctions 10 and 11

National Highways has issued an alert as it braces to shut a five-mile stretch of the motorway between junctions 10 and 11

National Highways said the action is necessary to demolish a bridge and build a new gantry

National Highways said the action is necessary to demolish a bridge and build a new gantry

‘If you must go, travel by train, walk, use a bicycle. I don’t mind really what you do.

‘Avoid driving anywhere around those diversionary routes around Painshill, Byfleet, West Byfleet on the eastern side of Woking. It will be in your interests,’ he told The Independent’s travel podcast.

He said the upgrades were necessary as the M25-A3 intersection ‘simply cannot handle the volume of traffic that it’s being asked to handle’.

However, it will be the first ever scheduled daytime all-lanes shutdown of the M25 since it first opened in 1986.

Motorists should expect heavy traffic as the M25 usually carries between 4,000 and 6,000 vehicles in each direction for every hour.

National Highways senior project manager Daniel Kittredge added: ‘If people move away from the diversion routes that we prescribe, it creates additional issues in different parts of the road network.

‘The majority of the time that will be local roads, so that really impacts residents in those particular areas.’

A 5-mile stretch of the motorway between junctions 10 and 11 in Surrey will close in both directions from 9pm on Friday until 6am on Monday

A 5-mile stretch of the motorway between junctions 10 and 11 in Surrey will close in both directions from 9pm on Friday until 6am on Monday

It will be the first scheduled daytime all-lane shutdown of the M25 since it opened in 1986

It will be the first scheduled daytime all-lane shutdown of the M25 since it opened in 1986

It is estimated that the ten mile diversion for the five-mile stretch of the motorway will take one hour longer than usual

It is estimated that the ten mile diversion for the five-mile stretch of the motorway will take one hour longer than usual

He continued: ‘That’s why we’re trying to encourage people not to follow the satnav.

‘Stick on the prescribed diversion route. It’s going to be more suitable for your journey.’

National Highways has set out a diversion route that more than doubles the five-mile distance between the two junctions, warning of delays of up to an hour.

Motorists will be forced to detour more than ten miles around northern Surrey, via Cobham, Byfleet, West Byfleet and Sheerwater before rejoining the motorway at Chertsey.

Nearby trains run by South Western Railway are operating normally over the coming weekend except for a line closure between Hampton Court and Surbiton.

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