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How busy Britain’s 62 motorways and 937 A-roads with their own page are, which vehicles use them and how many collisions police record, section by section.

343 billion vehicle miles driven on GB roads up 1.9% vs 2024 DfT · 2025

Drivers covered 343 billion vehicle miles on Great Britain’s roads in 2025. Motorways carry 21.0% of it and A-roads 44.2%. Each road page groups DfT count points into sections between junctions and sets collisions against the traffic.

Traffic on Great Britain’s roads by road type

Motorway traffic is up 31.4% on 2000, and minor-road traffic up 24.3% on 2000.

Vehicle miles a year on motorways, A-roads and minor roads in Great Britain
Year Minor roadsA-roadsMotorways
2000 95.9bn131.0bn54.7bn
2001 95.5bn133.5bn56.4bn
2002 98.7bn135.7bn57.5bn
2003 98.6bn137.2bn57.8bn
2004 98.5bn138.7bn59.8bn
2005 98.4bn138.6bn60.2bn
2006 99.5bn140.4bn61.7bn
2007 102.5bn139.5bn62.4bn
2008 101.9bn137.9bn62.0bn
2009 98.9bn138.0bn61.7bn
2010 97.5bn136.2bn61.0bn
2011 97.2bn136.8bn61.8bn
2012 98.0bn135.6bn62.4bn
2013 98.2bn135.6bn63.3bn
2014 102.6bn138.3bn64.8bn
2015 104.1bn140.8bn66.4bn
2016 107.0bn144.2bn67.4bn
2017 108.2bn146.2bn68.6bn
2018 107.2bn148.4bn69.0bn
2019 108.2bn150.0bn70.5bn
2020 90.9bn114.9bn52.5bn
2021 104.6bn129.6bn60.1bn
2022 110.3bn141.8bn68.0bn
2023 115.6bn145.4bn69.8bn
2024 118.0bn148.2bn69.9bn
2025 119.3bn151.4bn71.9bn

Source:DfT,UK Motoring analysis 2000 to 2025 Updated

Motorways

Every motorway with a page, busiest first by average daily flow in 2025. Tap a heading to sort.

Motorways in Great Britain by average daily flow
M25Kent to Thurrock118.4145,5906.3bn11.4%−0.7%7.5
M60Bury to Stockport37.8131,4221.8bn6.2%+5.7%4.9
M1Barnet to Leeds203.4115,2348.6bn13.2%+0.6%4.8
M27Hampshire to Portsmouth32.1105,6761.2bn5.3%+0.2%6.4
M56Stockport to West Cheshire37.5104,9121.4bn8.2%+3.8%4.3
M62Liverpool to East Riding of Yorkshire103.397,7363.7bn13.8%+1.3%5.4
M5Sandwell to Devon165.997,5735.9bn9.0%+6.4%2.9
M6Leicestershire to Cumberland246.495,4798.6bn14.1%+9.0%4.6
A38(M)In Birmingham3.094,794104m3.6%−2.7%9.5
M23Surrey to West Sussex17.492,982591m4.9%−0.3%5.4
M40Buckinghamshire to Warwickshire90.992,2603.1bn8.8%−4.0%2.7
M4Hounslow to Carmarthenshire196.591,6476.6bn7.9%−0.8%3.8
M3Surrey to Hampshire62.591,5632.1bn6.2%−3.5%5.7
M42Worcestershire to Leicestershire44.889,6371.5bn11.8%−4.9%3.6
M61Salford to Lancashire24.888,269799m7.5%+1.9%5.9
M11Redbridge to Cambridgeshire56.883,6151.7bn11.4%+8.7%6.6
M57Knowsley to Sefton11.277,479317m7.7%+7.7%5.0
M32South Gloucestershire to City of Bristol4.576,691126m3.9%−6.7%9.4
M66Lancashire to Bury8.774,848238m6.7%+2.9%5.3
A167(M)In Newcastle upon Tyne1.674,84644m1.4%+23.7%23.9
M2In Kent28.773,043765m8.5%−0.7%8.9
A57(M)In Manchester1.572,34440m2.5%+12.5%15.9
M275In Portsmouth2.771,02170m2.1%+1.2%–
M8City of Edinburgh to Renfrewshire67.069,7771.7bn7.5%+1.5%5.0
A1(M)Hertfordshire to Gateshead156.569,3004.0bn13.2%+0.5%4.0
M73In North Lanarkshire7.568,987189m9.9%+18.4%4.7
M602In Salford4.168,648103m4.1%−0.2%12.0
A3(M)In Hampshire5.768,581143m3.6%−3.0%10.1
A58(M)In Leeds1.168,55028m1.6%+0.1%32.0
M18Rotherham to East Riding of Yorkshire29.367,793725m17.4%−4.2%4.7
M53Wirral to West Cheshire22.365,277531m5.2%+5.7%4.0
M20In Kent51.464,7911.2bn13.4%+2.2%6.9
M606Kirklees to Bradford2.562,57857m8.1%−10.8%20.6
M65In Lancashire29.062,005656m5.4%+0.8%10.4
A329(M)In Wokingham5.061,671113m5.4%−6.0%7.6
M55Lancashire to Blackpool14.061,484314m4.8%+2.3%7.4
M69Warwickshire to Leicestershire17.359,202374m9.2%+0.3%2.7
A404(M)In Windsor and Maidenhead2.558,95054m3.5%+6.9%–
M621Kirklees to Leeds10.857,171225m6.0%−6.3%10.5
M74Glasgow City to South Lanarkshire42.555,118855m13.6%+5.3%4.0
M77Glasgow City to East Ayrshire19.654,506390m6.7%+6.6%2.6
M80Glasgow City to Stirling25.852,195492m7.6%+2.4%3.6
M54Staffordshire to Telford and Wrekin24.850,949461m9.5%−0.2%2.8
A48(M)Newport to Cardiff2.449,61644m6.0%+5.1%–
A627(M)Oldham to Rochdale4.546,03676m5.4%+5.9%7.7
A64(M)In Leeds1.044,04316m1.6%+7.8%–
M67In Tameside4.843,85677m5.5%−2.8%7.9
M271Hampshire to Southampton2.642,79841m10.4%+5.0%19.0
M58Sefton to Wigan12.842,200197m8.4%+6.9%6.2
M26In Kent9.842,084151m11.2%−8.9%4.9
M9City of Edinburgh to Stirling31.541,568478m7.6%−6.6%2.6
A194(M)Gateshead to South Tyneside3.740,46655m6.1%+10.1%–
M180Doncaster to North Lincolnshire25.739,391370m25.2%−3.2%4.8
M90City of Edinburgh to Perth & Kinross43.137,563591m8.9%−4.8%4.0
A74(M)South Lanarkshire to Cumberland49.737,540681m23.0%+3.7%2.7
M6 TollWarwickshire to Staffordshire29.837,220405m10.9%−4.7%–
M876In Falkirk7.934,26399m10.0%+0.7%–
M49South Gloucestershire to City of Bristol5.128,61453m12.1%+27.4%–
M50Worcestershire to Herefordshire21.926,680213m15.1%+2.4%4.9
M48South Gloucestershire to Monmouthshire13.020,43097m11.7%+7.6%6.3
A14(M)In Cambridgeshire1.514,4317.9m5.5%––
M45West Northamptonshire to Warwickshire8.213,06739m13.7%−10.9%–

Busiest A-roads

The 20 A-roads with the highest average daily flow in 2025.

The 20 busiest A-roads in Great Britain by average daily flow
#
1A282Thurrock to Kent7.4107,01714.6%+0.1%17.5
2A406Hounslow to Newham28.587,7644.3%−4.4%47.0
3A720City of Edinburgh to East Lothian14.068,1775.3%+4.3%8.5
4A13Tower Hamlets to Southend-on-Sea47.064,7097.1%+3.8%37.1
5A1261In Tower Hamlets1.860,1823.4%−12.8%53.1
6A331In Surrey9.557,4042.9%−1.4%10.1
7A14Suffolk to Leicestershire142.856,58115.2%+7.1%5.4
8A127Havering to Southend-on-Sea25.756,0503.5%−8.7%14.4
9A42In Leicestershire15.055,70613.8%+6.0%2.0
10A102Hackney to Greenwich6.352,8123.5%−14.2%54.1
11A500Staffordshire to East Cheshire20.952,5657.9%+8.2%7.6
12A4232In Cardiff13.151,0233.8%−8.9%7.7
13A3City of London to Portsmouth85.650,3943.2%−5.1%30.0
14A725North Lanarkshire to South Lanarkshire11.549,0175.4%+6.7%8.7
15A5103In Manchester6.748,5111.8%−3.2%21.2
16A1260In Peterborough3.647,3512.1%+6.8%23.1
17A1058Newcastle upon Tyne to North Tyneside8.946,3340.9%+7.6%13.8
18A12Tower Hamlets to Suffolk120.646,0726.1%−4.9%16.4
19A2Southwark to Kent80.146,0645.6%−0.7%36.0
20A289Kent to Medway9.543,7774.0%+6.7%23.2

Road rankings

Every A-road with a page

937 A-roads with at least five DfT count points, by number.

A1 roads 153
A2 roads 87
A3 roads 120
A4 roads 168
A5 roads 146
A6 roads 141
A7 roads 41
A8 roads 35
A9 roads 46

Source:DfT,UK Motoring analysis 2000 to 2025 Updated

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