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The Guardian - UK
The Guardian - UK
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Gwyn Topham Transport correspondent

Jams, strikes and engineering work add up to an Easter holiday bunfight

Long queues at Heathrow Airport last Easter.
Long queues at Heathrow Airport last Easter. Photograph: Rex

With the approach of the Easter holiday weekend comes the time-honoured question, immortalised by the Clash: should I stay or should I go? To which the answer has long been – how about neither?

Those who choose to holiday in rainy Britain will be grappling with record traffic jams or a semi-functioning railway handily axed at its London roots by seasonal engineering works. Trips abroad must be navigated via strikes at Heathrow, and whatever French air traffic controllers decide to do (hint: strike). Home or away, the cost of travel and accommodation has surged.

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