| Re: M5 Avonmouth Bridge. Structural issue, severe delays 17/08/2025 Posted by Bob_Blakey at 13:42, 18th August 2025 |     |
Well done for not specifying 'Road Tax'!
| Re: M5 Avonmouth Bridge. Structural issue, severe delays 17/08/2025 Posted by Witham Bobby at 12:39, 18th August 2025 | |
How would that work, given we don't have road charging in this country and such journeys are already subsidised 100% by taxpayers.
If you pay 0 then 25%/50%/100% of that would be 0.
The road users that pay vehicle excise duty, fuel duty, VAT on the vehicle and on the fuel and on the fuel excise duty? Is it those "subsidised" road users you mean?
| Re: M5 Avonmouth Bridge. Structural issue, severe delays 17/08/2025 Posted by ray951 at 12:22, 18th August 2025 | |
14 miles 
ouch!
ouch!Are Highways England offering "delay / repay" or the equivalent to those held up by more than 15/60/60/120 minutes from the journey planners?
How would that work, given we don't have road charging in this country and such journeys are already subsidised 100% by taxpayers.
If you pay 0 then 25%/50%/100% of that would be 0.
| Re: M5 Avonmouth Bridge. Structural issue, severe delays 17/08/2025 Posted by bobm at 09:37, 18th August 2025 | |
The link in the opening post has been updated to say the road reopened at 10pm yesterday.
| Re: M5 Avonmouth Bridge. Structural issue, severe delays 17/08/2025 Posted by Mark A at 08:41, 18th August 2025 | |
Seems to have cleared this morning. Perhaps it was the fact that one lane remained open that the disruption didn't seem to cascade onto the regional road network. Thinking back to a time the Avonmouth bridge was completely closed by an accident at the start of the day, several counties slowly ground to a halt with a slowly evolving traffic snarl-up, queues on the A4 into Bath and I suspect the old mining town of Radstock seeing the ghost of the legendary Saturday queues around the pair of level crossings there.
Mark
| Re: M5 Avonmouth Bridge. Structural issue, severe delays 17/08/2025 Posted by JayMac at 01:27, 18th August 2025 | |
Delay Repay pays out on the railways for weather related disruption.
| Re: M5 Avonmouth Bridge. Structural issue, severe delays 17/08/2025 Posted by ChrisB at 17:46, 17th August 2025 | |
Weather-related, so out of scope for compo!
| Re: M5 Avonmouth Bridge. Structural issue, severe delays 17/08/2025 Posted by grahame at 17:40, 17th August 2025 | |
14 miles ouch!
ouch!Are Highways England offering "delay / repay" or the equivalent to those held up by more than 15/60/60/120 minutes from the journey planners?
| Re: M5 Avonmouth Bridge. Structural issue, severe delays 17/08/2025 Posted by Timmer at 17:38, 17th August 2025 | |
14 miles
ouch!| M5 Avonmouth Bridge. Structural issue, severe delays 17/08/2025 Posted by JayMac at 16:50, 17th August 2025 | |
The M5 Northbound over the Avonmouth Bridge is experiencing severe delays due to faulty bridge joint. Three of the four lanes northbound are closed. Tailbacks are currently stretching 14 miles back to J21 Weston-super-Mare. Traffic is slow moving as far back as J23 Dunball, Bridgwater. Traffic is taking over three hours to pass the affected area.
A temporary fix was made earlier today, but Highways England say a permanent fix is "quickly needed". The three lanes are likely to remain closed for the rest of the day.
The warm weather is affecting the speed at which the repairs can be made with materials taking longer to cure.
BBC News - Long traffic delays on M5 northbound due to Avonmouth Bridge fault
https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/c9qypj2x2xlo
