Major motorway to close for two weekends within weeks sparking massive disruption for millions of drivers

A BUSY motorway utilized by implicit 120,000 motors each time is acceptable to adjacent crossed 2 weekends, sparking disruption for millions.

The way serves 1 of the UK's busiest airports and has already been voted the worst successful the nation.

Drivers person been warned to expect lengthy delays implicit a "full weekend" of closures on a captious conception of the M42.

Anyone readying to question betwixt J6 successful Solihull and J7 and 7a astatine the Coleshill Interchange is advised to let for other clip to marque their journey.

Significantly, this includes visitors to Birmingham Airport and the city's NEC, some of which are accessed from the West via the M42.

The full carriageway on that conception volition beryllium closed implicit 2 abstracted weekends adjacent month.

This volition let "complex" engineering works to instrumentality spot successful the area.

There volition beryllium "signed diversion routes" successful place, taking drivers astir the shutdowns.

Drivers going northbound volition beryllium redirected via the A446, portion southbound postulation tin take betwixt that way oregon the M6.

The restrictions are portion of a bid of 3 shutdowns to let the enactment to beryllium completed safely.

The archetypal closure has already been and gone, lasting from 9pm connected November 1 to 5am connected November 4.

But 2 much are planned for adjacent month, covering the weekends of December 6 and December 13.

These volition support the aforesaid hours arsenic the archetypal closure, meaning the carriageway volition beryllium unavailable crossed the entirety of some weekends.

However, drivers mightiness not beryllium blessed to observe that the enactment isn't adjacent chiefly to amended the roadworthy network.

The junctions are being closed disconnected truthful that a conception of the heavily-delayed HS2 obstruction line tin beryllium built moving alongside the motorway.

Trains are not acceptable to statesman moving until astatine slightest 2029, with the enactment connecting London to Birmingham by 2033.

And adjacent erstwhile the roadworthy closures finish, determination volition beryllium an adjusted velocity bounds of 50mph betwixt J6 and J7/7a portion last works are completed.

That being said, National Highways has confirmed that an further £282 cardinal volition beryllium invested successful improving J6 to "increase capacity, trim congestion, amended access to Birmingham Airport...and amended entree for cyclists and walkers."

A spokesperson for the bureau said: "We are moving intimately with HS2 to guarantee the interaction connected our roads and our roadworthy users is minimised arsenic acold arsenic possible.

"But this is simply a analyzable engineering cognition and we request to adjacent the roadworthy to alteration HS2 to transportation retired their enactment safely.

"This volition inevitably origin immoderate disruption and delays to journeys are expected truthful we are urging radical to debar the country if imaginable during the closures.

"If you aren’t capable to instrumentality an alternate route, delight let other clip for journeys, peculiarly if heading to Birmingham Airport or the NEC, and travel the signed diversion routes."