The government has announced that our most congested road, the A14, will be tolled.
In 2004, a BBC survey reported that the crossing was "the most stressful section of the M25" while in 2009, the crossing was listed in a Royal Automobile Club report as the fourth most congested road in Britain.
Britain has the most congested roads in the European Union.
It boasts a dysfunctional school system, struggling to cope with children who speak some 92 different languages at home, a troubled police department and (according to a new report this week) the most congested roads in the country.
Rio de Janeiro has the third most congested roads in the world (after Moscow and Istanbul), which is not just a daily headache for professional drivers, it is also a primary cause for concern ahead of the Olympics.
But in the end the new mayor will be judged by how he deals with three barely-tractable LA problems: ghastly public schools, a troubled police force and the most congested roads in the country.In this section Under siege Naming names A Stonehenge of smelly fridges But what's in the enchilada?
That, at least, is the popular caricature of the men who pilot the estimated 2.5 million commercial vans every day around Britain, a country with the most congested roads in Europe and probably higher road rage than any country on the Continent.
This beautiful Grade II listed terracotta and mosaic hall, unexpected respite from the grim canyon of one of London's most congested roads, was originally built in 1906 as the headquarters of an assurance company, and was taken over by the GPs in 2012 after sitting empty for years.
Ministers put forward the argument that any cut in the tax would result in cuts in social services, but British motorists, who drive on Europe's most congested roads and live in the country with Europe's poorest public transportation, were unimpressed.
Neil Greig, director of policy and research at the Institute of Advanced Motorists, welcomed the improvements to "one of the busiest and most congested roads in England".
Some of the worst traffic hotspots in England are to be targeted in a £165m government scheme to upgrade the most congested roads.
