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A66/M6 Junction 40 horrendous traffic

Reported via mobile in the Traffic lights (NH) category anonymously at 11:43, Thursday 31 July 2025

Sent to National Highways less than a minute later. FixMyStreet ref: 7959802.

The traffic lights need looking at as it is only letting a few vehicles through and the traffic is backed up to rheghed roundabout when I joined the queue some 50 minutes ago and I am still 15 cars off the roundabout. This is the A66 between rheghed and junction 40 roundabout. It doesn't help when other vehicles come through and block the lanes up. This is a regular occurrence and not one off. It needs looked at. At 1105 we were sat on the bridge and looking left all you can see is the standing traffic as far as you can see trying to get up the slip road. Something needs done with as I say it isn't a one off but a regular occurrence where it takes ages to get to the motorway roundabout

Updates

  • Thank you for contacting National Highways.

    The information you provided around the operation of the traffic lights has been passed to our technical team to review our data.

    We aim to keep the traffic flowing as smoothly as possible for all directions and recognise that on occasions we might need to make changes.

    If we find that any changes are due here, we will undertake those once we have established a suitable solution.

    Kind regards

    National Highways

    State changed to: Internal referral

    Posted by National Highways at 07:43, Friday 1 August 2025

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