WE all know what rush hour is like. You clock off, jump in your cars or on the buses and you find yourself stuck in seemingly never-ending queues of traffic.

To try to help you avoid those jams, why not use our traffic and travel page to map out alternative routes if that is an option available to you?

A quick look around North Worcestershire and the Black Country has identified a number of hot spots including:

*A451 Minster Road, Stourport-On-Severn. Roadworks are being carried out and temporary traffic lights are at work on A451 Minster Road at Manor Road.

*A456 Manor Way Halesowen. We getting reports that traffic is way heavier than normal on A456 Manor Way Westbound at A459 Grange Road Roundabout.

*A38 Lickey. Speed restriction of 40 mph due to roadworks on A38 Southbound between M5 J4 (Bromsgrove / Stourbridge) and Barley Mow Lane.

*A461 Stourbridge Road Holly Hall, Dudley. There is queueing traffic on A461 Stourbridge Road before Kingswinford Road (Scotts Green Island).

To find out what’s happening on the roads in your area, visit our page here. You can tailor the search to suit your journeys.