Holiday traffic queues to check-in for ferries at the Port of Dover, Kent, as P&O services remain suspended during the Easter getaway. Picture date: Friday April 15, 2022. PA Photo. Supplies of petrol and diesel at filling stations in some areas of the country are running at around half their usual level as the UK's travel network came under pressure ahead of the Easter getaway, new figures suggest. See PA story TRANSPORT Easter. Photo credit should read: Gareth Fuller/PA Wire Photograph: Gareth Fuller/PA
Good morning, and if you have spent the weekend drowning in chocolate or stuck in traffic, solidarity.
After a weekend with more than 17m leisure trips expected on British roads; delayed or cancelled trains causing vast crowds for those persevering with the railways; and getaway-ruining gridlock continuing around the Port of Dover, today’s newsletter – with Professor David Metz, former chief scientist at the Department of Transport – looks at our perennial anxiety about bank holiday transport chaos, how bad it is, and what there is to be done about it.
