Essex travel: Long delays on M11 near Stansted Airport as weekend roadworks close Birchanger roundabout

There are lengthy delays on the M11 northbound close to Stansted Airport on account of roadworks this weekend. In keeping with site visitors monitoring web site Inrix, there’s stop-start site visitors for 5 miles as a result of roadworks, which have closed the north aspect of the Birchanger roundabout on the M11 round Junction 8 A120 (Bishop’s Stortford).

Journey time is at the moment estimated to be round 20 minutes. Inrix says persons are coming off the M11 on the roundabout and discovering that they can’t go spherical, and are being compelled again onto the motorway. They then are having to go all the best way to Junction 10 to come back again – which is including almost 40 miles onto their journeys.

In keeping with Highways England, the roadworks will end at 5am on Monday (June 13). There’s a diversion in place at Junction 8a, utilizing the spur highway in the direction of Stansted.

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Drivers travelling northbound who need to journey east must proceed on the M11 to junction 9a earlier than re-joining the M11 southbound to exit at junction 8, Birchanger Inexperienced Roundabout. A120 eastbound site visitors will probably be diverted northbound on the M11 in the direction of junction 9a earlier than re-joining the M11 southbound to exit at junction 8, Birchanger Inexperienced Roundabout and proceed east.

For non-motorway customers, Highways England says: “Eastbound site visitors will probably be diverted from the A120 alongside the B1383, then flip proper to comply with Forest Corridor Street and Church Street, earlier than travelling south alongside Bury Lodge Lane and Spherical Coppice Street to affix the A120 at Priory Wooden Roundabout.”

Additional north bridge closures will even be in place from Friday, June 17 at 9pm by way of until Monday, June 20 at 5am. There will probably be one other closure from 9pm on Thursday. June 24 to 5am on Monday, June 27.

South bridge closures and roadworks will then happen from July 1. Extra details about the work may be found online here.

Better Anglia trains are additionally operating a bus substitute service this weekend between Stansted Airport and Waltham Cross, that are being affected by the sluggish site visitors on the M11 at present. In a tweet, Better Anglia stated: “Please bear in mind Rail substitute companies have been delayed between 30-40 minutes”.