AA President Edmund King believes Monday morning will be the busiest period of the Christmas getaway on the UK's roads as his motoring organisation predicts “some 22 million” drivers will travel today. Report by Blairm. Like us on Facebook at http://www.facebook.com/itn and follow us on Twitter at http://twitter.com/itn
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00:00Today on the roads it will be very busy, there are some 22 million people making trips,
00:06but the good news is most of those trips, almost 60 percent, are quite short trips,
00:12under 50 miles. So what we suspect today it's more like shopping Saturdays, so areas where you've got
00:20shopping centres close to motorways will be busy, so bottom of the M1, Cribbs Causeway near Bristol,
00:29the M4, the M5, the M8 near Glasgow, the A1 near Gateshead and Newcastle, all of those areas will
00:38be busy, but because people have still got Sunday, Monday and Tuesday to make their trips, the trips
00:46will be somewhat spread out in terms of the longer journeys. Well I think today there'll be a lot of
00:52localised congestion, plus there's bad weather in the north, in Scotland, in the west, so that
01:00will have an effect. Sunday is likely to be a bit quieter on the roads, but I think Monday will be
01:09the day that those people that haven't made those longer trips will hit the road, so I think Monday
01:15from about 9.30 will probably now be the busiest period.