Has the ‘worst week of the year’ for roadworks affected your journey times?

We ask people in Birmingham

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00:00British roads are rubbish.

00:03Yeah, and school holidays, out come the traffic cones.

00:07Nobody working on them, but all the traffic cones are there.

00:10I think it's a storage system.

00:12And it does take longer to get round.

00:15And there's no...

00:18There's no communication, so they'll block one main road off,

00:22so you think, oh, I can go another way.

00:24You go that way and there's roadworks there as well.

00:27Or the diversion signs.

00:29We travel around a lot in the UK whenever we come back,

00:32which essentially is quite often.

00:35I was actually commenting on how good the roads were in Wales.

00:38We were up in North Wales, and they were excellent, absolutely excellent.

00:41And then once you get into the inner cities,

00:43obviously it's a different kettle of fish.

00:46And we've sat in quite a bit of traffic, which is disappointing

00:49because you don't want to spend your holidays in traffic.

00:52So it's had a big impact on...

00:54We've lost quite a bit of time due to that.

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