(24 Nov 2015, 10:21 pm)GX03 SVC wrote I've only been to Middlesbrough once, by car. Entered via the A19 and came in from the west, the traffic wasn't bad. As nobody who I was with knew the area I've probably been everywhere in the town. 

Exited through the North over a bridge and travelled via Seaton Carew and Hartlepool, exiting wasn't too bad either.

Husband has worked around Teesside for over a decade (Stockton, Redcar, then Billingham), but isn't familiar with the route concerned. Thankfully he doesn't have to cross it anymore, but his personal rush hour nightmare has always been the Tees flyover, though he had fun with the Portrack interchange for many years. I thikn much of the congestion in the area is rush hour traffic - he beats the worst by getting into work for 8, so he can leave between 4 and 5. Any later and his journey takes at least half as long again. His journey is always much better in the school holidays.

If the same traffic patterns are true on the road concerned, then I don't think a P&R just for the town centre during shopping hours would fix anything much.