Quicker via Dartford: it might be worth giving the M25 a miss this weekend
The latest closure of the M25 for major engineering works will take place this weekend, from 9pm on Friday July 12 to 6am on Monday July 15, when the motorway will be closed between Junctions 10, the junction with the A3 at Wisley, and Junction 11 at Chertsey.
This is the third such closure this year, part of a £317million project which will take until 2025 to install a new bridge on the roundabout at Junction 10.
Coming at the start of the peak holiday season, with the public driving off around the country or travelling via Heathrow or Gatwick airports, the traffic disruption is expected to be worse than during the previous closures.
National Highways has issued a set of diversion instructions which gives an indication of the kind of delays that traffic in south-west London and Surrey might expect by recommending motorists heading westwards shuld instead drive in the opposite direction, saying that heading around the M25 anti-clockwise via the Dartford Crossing “may be quicker”.
The RAC has urged those travelling to airports to leave “even earlier than usual”. The RAC’s Alice Simpson, said travelling to London will be “easier by train and Tube”.
The project, due to be completed in summer 2025, will increase the number of lanes at Junction 10, which is “one of the country’s busiest and most dangerous motorway junctions”, according to the BBC.
Diversion route
The local diversion route is the same for both directions:
- Junction 10 to Junction 11: North bound A3 to Painshill Junction, A245 towards Woking, and then A320 to M25 Junction 11.
- Junction 11 to Junction 10: A320 south towards Woking, A245 towards Byfleet and Painshill junction, Southbound A3 to Junction 10.
And they add: “Avoiding the closure by taking the M25 via the Dartford Crossing may also be quicker.”
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