Traffic and Travel

Hertfordshire police say although there had been a reduction in incidents they have begun to rise again over the past couple of weeks.

Highways England says lanes one and two in both directions between Stortford and Harlow will be closed at different times.

The stretch between the Tesco and Stansted Road roundabouts will be closed for several days and traffic diverted through the town centre.

The local operator is running a near normal timetable until Christmas Eve and from January 4, but between these dates there are alterations.

Sustainable Travel Town status includes conditions that there is no free parking in town centres and no net gain in spaces.

Stansted's Essex county councillor Ray Gooding: “It was a bit of a nightmare – it was the perfect storm."

A lane of the southbound motorway between Stortford and Harlow was closed for work to repair the problem hole.

Heavy rain left lanes at Much Hadham Ford under 3ft of water and firefighters twice attended to help drivers in stranded vehicles.

B1383 at Newport remains closed and underwater – and drivers are warned against removing closure signs and trying to drive through.

Week-night work to renew lighting to begin Monday December 14 and end in mid-April, with a break over Christmas and New Year.

At Bishop's Stortford, the 8,400 passenger entries and exits a day were down 5.7% year on year.

The measures are part of a drive to make travel safer over the festive period as families take advantage of an easing of Covid-19 restrictions.

The spur roads at junctions 9 and 9a will be shut from Friday evening to Monday morning for vital repairs to carriageway surface.

East Herts Council hopes the 16-space rack will "encourage commuters to change their travel mode to a more active and sustainable one".

Contractors will be carrying out remedial works and resurfacing between the Stansted Road and Tesco roundabouts this weekend.

Mercedes motorist Joshua Freedman, 30, from Dunmow, also told to pay £605 in fines and costs.

Eni-itan Bajomo, a Nigerian living in Barking, was passenger in Audi TT which hit central reservation then collided with two other cars.

Since May, ad hoc measures have been in place in South Street and Potter Street, with closures of Apton Road and a one-way system in Newtown Road.

Northbound M11 between junctions 7 and 8 will be closed for four weekends, prompting fears of major jams in Sawbridgeworth.

The casualty was a passenger in an Audi which hit the central reservation and then two other cars – a fourth car involved failed to stop.