Road is 'least reliable' in England

04/07/11

By Gemma Roberts

Delays have become a way of life for motorists using a stretch of road in East Anglia.

The least reliable major road in England has been officially named as the A428, taking drivers between the A1 and the M11 near Cambridge.

Figures from the Department for Transport show that between May 2010 and April 2011 just 34.8% of journeys taken on the A428 from the M11 to the A1 were completed on time.

While on the reverse route, from the A1 near St Neots in Cambridgeshire to the M11 north west of Cambridge, just 38.9 per cent of journeys were driven on schedule during the same period.

The A428 proved even worse than the often-jammed M25, where the section between junction 16 near Uxbridge in west London and junction 23 at South Mimms in Hertfordshire was the third-worst road, with only 43.7 per cent of journeys on time.

The most reliable stretch of road managed by the Highways Agency in the 12 months ending in April was the M4 between Wales and junction 15 south of Swindon in Wiltshire.

A total of 93.4 per cent of journeys on the west-bound, Wales-heading stretch of this section of motorway were on time, while the on-time figure for reverse journeys was 92.5 per cent.