IT’S almost that time of the day again when you leave work and get caught in road works and traffic jams to frustrate your efforts to get home quickly.

To try to minimise the annoyance, why not use our traffic and travel service to map out your routes home?

A quick look around North Worcestershire and the Black Country has thrown up a few congestion hot spots including:

*A4025 Worcester Road, Stourport. Temporary traffic lights are in operation at roadworks on A4025 Worcester Road at B4193 Hartlebury Road. Expect delays. Temporary traffic lights in operation on the roundabout.

*Stafford Street, Dudley. Usual congestion affecting Stafford Street around the junction of High Street.

*Lower Cladswell Lane, Cookhill. Lower Cladswell Lane both ways closed due to roadworks between Mearse Lane and Cladswell Lane (Cookhill).

*M5 Junction 2 Oldbury. The seemingly never-ending roadworks on the motorway continue to frustrate.

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.