Recently on my way to work I, like thousands of other commuters, was held up on the M4 motorway for nearly five hours, due to “fear for a man's welfare”. The traffic was halted at 7.40am and released at 12.25pm. The minor roads were also severely congested as a result of this incident. This was not on my side of the motorway, but the police stopped both carriageways, which meant misery for thousands more commuters than necessary. Isn’t it about time the traffic advisory boards and the highways agency had some kind of strategy that was a bit more sensible? Road users seem to solely rely on telephone messages from listeners and not from the authorities, for example, the highways agency or police.