Motorists are expected to face further travel chaos after one of Britain’s busiest motorways shut over the weekend.
An estimated 100,000 drivers crawled along a 12-mile diversion on the first day of the roadworks between junctions 10 and 11 of the packed M25.
The stretch connects Heathrow Airport to the South of England, with aerial pictures capturing the road with no traffic in the first planned daytime shutdown since 1986.
The roadworks, which involve demolishing a bridge and putting up a giant gantry, triggered five mile-long, single-file queues on the road approaching the closure.
The road is not expected to reopen until 6am on Monday. It will close again in April and three more times during the busy summer months.
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