{"id":911509,"date":"2026-04-22T17:14:26","date_gmt":"2026-04-22T17:14:26","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/911509\/"},"modified":"2026-04-22T17:14:26","modified_gmt":"2026-04-22T17:14:26","slug":"major-disruption-on-m42-recap-traffic-delays-near-birmingham-airport","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/911509\/","title":{"rendered":"\u2018Major disruption\u2019 on M42 recap &#8211; traffic delays near Birmingham Airport"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"Paragraph_paragraph-text__PVKlh \" data-tmdatatrack=\"content-unit\" data-tmdatatrack-type=\"paragraph\">As well as the incident close to Birmingham Airport and Junction 6, there have also been other delays on this stretch of the M42 before Junction 5.<\/p>\n<p class=\"Paragraph_paragraph-text__PVKlh \" data-tmdatatrack=\"content-unit\" data-tmdatatrack-type=\"paragraph\">Traffic information service, Inrix, has said the delays there on the M42 have been caused by an &#8216;obstruction in the carriageway&#8217;.<\/p>\n<p class=\"Paragraph_paragraph-text__PVKlh \" data-tmdatatrack=\"content-unit\" data-tmdatatrack-type=\"paragraph\">But that obstruction has been removed and those delays prior to Junction 5 are now easing.<\/p>\n<p class=\"Paragraph_paragraph-text__PVKlh \" data-tmdatatrack=\"content-unit\" data-tmdatatrack-type=\"paragraph\">Inrix said: &#8220;Road cleared and traffic easing, obstruction removed on M42 Southbound before J5 A41 Solihull By-pass (Solihull \/ Knowle).<\/p>\n<p class=\"Paragraph_paragraph-text__PVKlh \" data-tmdatatrack=\"content-unit\" data-tmdatatrack-type=\"paragraph\">&#8220;Separate to the earlier incident Northbound.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p class=\"Paragraph_paragraph-text__PVKlh \" data-tmdatatrack=\"content-unit\" data-tmdatatrack-type=\"paragraph\">There still appear to be issues by Junction 6 though &#8211; with slow-moving, heavy traffic.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"As well as the incident close to Birmingham Airport and Junction 6, there have also been other delays&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":911510,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":"","_share_on_mastodon":"0"},"categories":[7820],"tags":[855,11949,748,26190,393,4884,20244,8955,2671,16,15],"class_list":["post-911509","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-birmingham","tag-birmingham","tag-birmingham-airport","tag-britain","tag-coventry","tag-england","tag-great-britain","tag-m42","tag-midlands-traffic-and-travel","tag-solihull","tag-uk","tag-united-kingdom"],"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@uk\/116449487591174734","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/911509","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=911509"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/911509\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/911510"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=911509"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=911509"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=911509"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}