A stretch of the English M25 motorway is now so congested with traffic that drivers, at 23 km/h, drive slower than cyclists.
On a stretch of the English M25 motorway, things are now so slow that drivers on average do not drive faster than 23.6 km/h.
This is what The Sun writes.
– Drivers on the busiest parts of the road network will hardly be surprised that everything is moving at a snail's pace.
But it (the speed, ed.) is detrimental to the economy, a spokesman for the roadside assistance company AA tells The Sun.
The fact that things are slow on English motorways is evidenced by the general average speeds. Although the British are allowed to drive up to 70 miles per hour, or the equivalent of 112 km/h, on average they never go that fast.
In fact, Britons drive an average of just 60 mph on the busiest motorways. Figures from the UK Department for Transport show that average motorway speeds are below 30 mph on at least seven of the busiest motorways in the country.
In comparison, the latest figures from the Danish Road Directorate show that Danes are also driving slower and slower. However, not as slowly as the British.
The latest speed measurement shows that Danes drive at an average speed of 110.8 km/h, where the legal speed limit is 130 km/h. And that is actually the slowest the Danes have driven for a long time.
– It has happened gradually over the past few years. But I would call it a significant development, says project manager Niels Moltved from the Danish Road Directorate in a press release.
