Experts have predicted congestion, chaos, confusion and sluggish movement of traffic this Thursday. The Easter traffic this year is expected to be double over last year. Around 16 million cars are expected to take to road on Thursday, it’s been estimated.

RAC research has shown that people travelling abroad have dwindled by 43% from the previous year. Reasons could be plenty like recession, rising prices of travel and price rise in other countries. The transformation from abroad to domestic travel will take toll on domestic flights, trains and roads. With the predicted rail chaos this weekend, many are preferring road transportation.

Neil Thompson from RAC said - "Easter is always one of our busiest periods of the year, but this Easter's getaway is expected to be more intense as motorists shun foreign travel in favour of domestic driving holidays.”

Traffic is expected to be on similar lines on Easter Monday as well. The advice for motorists is to accommodate 50% extra time before travelling for both Thursday as well as on Monday.