After being stuck in this section for two hours over a year ago I wrote to the Highways Agency after counting 22 workers on this 17 mile stretch. I suggested that the work was repetitive and could be broken up into smaller chunks to help. Also having three live lanes going into the works was risky as the queuing from braking vehicles caused older vehicles to overheat and stop with no hard shoulder. I also suggested that the speed limit be reduced to 40, with strictly enforced limits previous of 60 then 50 and then 40 to stop people driving up to the first camera, braking and causing the ripple effect thence queuing and stopping. They wrote back talking about how many machines they had on site.