M42 named England’s worst motorway – while the M40 ranks top

Your support helps us to tell the storyOur mission is to deliver unbiased, fact-based reporting that holds power to account and exposes the truth.Whether $5 or $50, every contribution counts.Support us to deliver journalism without an agenda.Find out more“Road works, potholes and delays,” a motorist complains. “Terrible road to drive on.” The unnamed driver is describing the M42 motorway, which loops around to the south and east of Birmingham. The unloved thoroughfare has been rated England’s worst motorway in the Strategic Roads User Survey – with 44 per cent of motorists finding it unsatisfactory.National Highways, which operates the strategic route network, is to close part of the M42 at night next week from Monday to Friday for work on overhead gantriesDiversions will be signposted from the despised dual carriageway between junctions 5 and 6 from 9pm to 5am from Monday 14 to Friday 18 October.Second-worst motorway in the survey by Transport Focus was the M62 across…