Roadworks will be lifted from the vast majority of motorways and major roads across the county this weekend to help Bank Holiday travellers.

Works are usually reinstated on the Tuesday after the break, but this year, in light of recently-announced industrial action affecting rail passengers, Highways England is not planning to reinstate roadworks until 6am next Thursday.

In total, almost 400 lane-miles of roadworks on motorways and A roads will be removed or suspended by 6am on Friday.

Simon Sheldon-Wilson, director of customer operations at Highways England, explained: “We are working with Network Rail and others to manage the impact of any industrial action on our customers.

“Motorways and major routes are likely to be even busier than usual if the planned industrial action goes ahead as travellers switch from rail to roads. We anticipate that customers may start noticing a difference in traffic during Friday afternoon and evening, when there could be extra journeys on our roads as the result of the planned rail action.

“During and immediately after the bank holiday we will be doing everything possible to manage traffic, such as removing temporary road works where practical. We’ll have extra traffic officer patrols and recovery vehicles on standby, and we’ll keep customers informed with real-time travel information online and via variable message signs.”

Here is a list of some of the major roadworks which will be lifted this weekend:

A21 Riverhead near Sevenoaks, electrical testing - 1 mile.

M2 junction 1 to 7 near Maidstone, electrical testing - 1 mile.

M20 junction 3 to 13 near Maidstone, central reservation replacement -1 mile.

For a full list of lifted and completed roadworks click here and for a list of remaining works click here.

For more travel information visit www.highways.gov.uk/traffic

Simon Sheldon-Wilson added: “If the planned industry action does go ahead next week, we strongly urge drivers to consider if their journeys are necessary, and if so to plan their journeys and check real-time travel information before setting out.”

The full list of schemes which will be completed, lifted or left in place over the late May bank holiday until 28 May is as follows: