The 10 Worst Roads in Britain Right Now

OXFORD STREET

TRANSPORT FOR LONDON (TFL)

34 active permits · 3 high-impact closures · 27 medium.

174.7

Score

RYE LANE

LONDON BOROUGH OF SOUTHWARK

25 active permits · 5 high-impact closures · 20 medium.

137.1

Score

ST EDITHS MARSH

WILTSHIRE COUNCIL

12 active permits · 12 high-impact closures.

108

Score

4 HAMPSTEAD ROAD TRANSPORT FOR LONDON (TFL) 19 permits 103.4
5 STONEY STREET LONDON BOROUGH OF SOUTHWARK 15 permits 99
6 PORTWAY BRISTOL CITY COUNCIL 12 permits 95.7
7 GLOUCESTER ROAD SOUTH GLOUCESTERSHIRE COUNCIL 17 permits 93.9
8 LOUGHBOROUGH PARK LONDON BOROUGH OF LAMBETH 11 permits 93.8
9 SHAFTGATE AVENUE Somerset Council 11 permits 91.5
10 MANDEVILLE ROAD LONDON BOROUGH OF EALING 15 permits 90

Methodology

How we score

Each active permit scores its impact multiplied by how long it runs. Impact: full closure or emergency ×3, multi-way signals, lane closure or major works ×2, minor and give-and-take ×1. Duration runs from ×1 (a day or less) to ×3 (eight weeks or more).

What counts as one road

Permits are clustered by proximity within a road name and authority. A county council has dozens of High Streets; without clustering they rank as a single road, which they are not. Stretches more than 2km apart are treated as separate roads.

Data freshness

Recomputed every 6 hours from the live Street Manager feed. The ticker at the top of the page is amber when we have fresh data.

What gets in

Only roads currently inside an active permit window, with at least 3 concurrent permits. No authority may take more than 2 of the ten places, so the table shows the worst roads rather than the busiest council. JSON feed.

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The 10 worst roadsin Britain this week.

OXFORD STREET

RYE LANE

ST EDITHS MARSH

The 10 worst roads
in Britain this week.