Latest live M11 traffic news
Live M11 traffic news and updates for M11 junctions, plus real time travel reports on delays, accidents, roadworks and snow.
The M11 motorway runs from northeast London to Huntingdon before merging with the A1(M). It is a vital road for motorists in Essex and Cambridgeshire, providing links to the M25, London and Stansted Airport. It also serves several large towns such as Harlow, Bishops Stortford and Cambridge. The M11 is home to the UK's longest uninterrupted stretch of motorway between junctions with 15.2 miles between Junction 8 and Junction 9.
On this page we want to help you avoid any possible travel delays with the latest live M11 traffic updates, travel alerts and an incident map. We have information and updates from the Highways Agency, official police accounts and other traffic news feeds on the latest accidents and roadwork delays. We also have useful list of motorway junctions to help plan your trip…
About the M11
The M11 does not follow convention when it comes to numbering its motorway junctions. There is no Junction 1 and the start of the M11 is actually at Junction 4. There is also only one service station at Junction 8, which serves both the M11 and the busy A120 dual carriageway.
The M11 was recently voted the 7th worst motorway in the country due to the high number of speed cameras, traffic jams and lack of lighting. Accidents and out-dated infrastucture were also on the list of annoyances for motorists on the M11.
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Details of the latest weather warnings in the M11 area from the Met Office…
History of M11
Construction on the M11 took place in stages, with the first stage being the stretch of road between junction 7 and junction 8. This was completed in 1975, before an extension down to Junction 4 was finished in 1977. Northbound work on the M11 to Junction 14 finished in 1980 and the whole motorway was opened fully in February of that year.
Due to a tight budget, the motorway between Junctions 7 and 14 was unsurfaced concrete, however, this degraded quickly and in the late 1990’s the whole area was replaced with tarmac. The road resurfacing took until 2008 to complete.
There were plans to open a north-facing M11 junction at Junction 5 but this was abandoned in 1998 with many citing the location of the nearby Bank of England Printing works as reason for the junction’s dismissal, although officials have never confirmed this.
In January 2003, a snowstorm left thousands of motorists stranded for up to 20 hours between Junction 7 and Junction 9. The weather became so severe that many drivers left their vehicles parked on the motorway while 12 lorries jack-knifed, with one blocking the whole carriageway.
There has also been a plane crash on the M11 in June 2002 after the brakes failed on an Aero L-39 Albtratose , which was attemting to land at the Imperial War Museum's Duxford Aerodrome. The jet crashed through the barrier at the end of the runway, skidded across the northbound carriageway before coming to a rest on the southbound carriageway. No vehicles were involved in the accident although the trainee pilot was killed in the crash.
M11 junctions
All of the M11 junctions, both northbound and southbound, are listed below…
| Northbound Exits | Junctions | Southbound Junctions |
| Start of Motorway | J4 | North Circular A406 (West) (A10, A1),West End, The City, Docklands, Blackwall Tunnel (A12,A13),A406 South |
| DebdenLoughton A1168 | J5 | No Access |
| Watford, Oxford,Heathrow Airport, (M1), M40, M4, M25(W)Gatwick Airport,Dartford Crossing, M23, M20, M25 (E) | J6 | Watford, Oxford,Heathrow Airport, (M1), M40, M4, M25(W)Gatwick Airport,Dartford Crossing, M23, M20, M25 (E) |
| Harlow A414 | J7 | Chelmsford, Harlow A414 |
| Bishops Storford,Services A120(W) | J8Services | Bishops Stortford, Services,Colchester, Stansted A120 |
| Stansted, Colchester A120(E) | J8A | No Access |
| Newmarket, Norwich A11 | J9 | No Access |
| Saffron Walden, Cambridge South, Haverhill A1301 | J9A | No Access |
| RoystonDuxton A505 | J10 | Saffron Walden, Duxford,Haverhill, Suffolk A505 |
| Harston A10Cambridge A1309 | J11 | Royston A10,Cambridge A1309 |
| Cambridge, Sandy A603 | J12 | Cambridge, Sandy A603 |
| Cambridge,Bedford A1303 | J13 | No Access |
| Newmarket A14,Ely (A10) | J14 | St Neots A428 |
| Road continues north as A14towards Huntington andThe Midlands | Start of Motorway |
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