Used to drive out to Southall from Croydon when I worked there. Provided you get to Earls Court by 6:45 you're fine. Of course, you might get stuck in traffic on the elevated section of the M4 (seen more accidents at that poxy junction by the Glaxo building than anywhere else in my lifetime) but so long as you don't, it's plain sailing. Plus, you beat the congestion charge if you get out of London before 7.
I have driven to Heathrow more times than I care to think about. Leave at 5.30 then it's through town, later...then you drive through town wishing you had taken the M25, or you take the M25 wishing you'd driven through town! My best advice is to stay sarf ov ver rivver (you have to know your routes) and cross at Battersea Bridge.
Take the battersea park bridge as the road along past the. Dogs home always has less traffic than the North . side. Embankment side.
The Journey (to the start of the M4) not bad. 5am - 25 mins or less from lewisham. 10-8 still no more than an hour and Half unless something is up the swanny
Yeah well, using the A22 is easy peasy because none of the locals can afford the tolls or understand how to pay them anyway, so there's no traffic. :-)
Yeah well, using the A22 is easy peasy because none of the locals can afford the tolls or understand how to pay them anyway, so there's no traffic. :-)
Where are you travelling from Razil? I used to drive to Heathrow from Erith and go through town, leaving about 6am. I used to go over Vauxhall bridge and if it was going well I'd be driving over that just after 7am. The M25 is pretty awful and going that way it was 65 miles for me, compared to 28 miles across town. Going that route I was also outside the congestion zone anyway.
I done enfield to Poyle for 3 years the m25 is only good before 6 am if you go any later and by that I mean get to any of the big jcts before the M4 by 6
If you was to go from dartford under the tunnel and rd past jct 27,26,25 then you must be there by 6am you need to be at 17,18 by 630 latest
If you go the other way then the jcts as you come rd towards the m4 and heathrow are exactly the same
If I was you I would be going the way you've been advised through town and at the times given
If not you will hate the journey daily
It's a horrible bstd mway the m25 and the m4 is bang in the middle of it you have to approach some of the longest jams it has regardless what way you go
If you go south round the m25, cut down the m3 and across via Bracknell to then join up with the m4. Quicker than going round to the junction of m25/m4.
yeah I did the m3 Bracknell route on the way back today, through town was OK but I got a bit lost in Victoria trying to cut a corner off the route and relying on gps too much.. so if i get there (M3/M25 jct ) by 6am I'm in the clear?
Yeah - there's no way you can keep that up for more than three months. By the end of the first month week you'll realise you;re travelling about four hours a day, By the end of the first month you'll wish you were dead.
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Leave at 5- 5.30 and you'll save another twenty mins min
My best advice is to stay sarf ov ver rivver (you have to know your routes) and cross at Battersea Bridge.
The Journey (to the start of the M4) not bad. 5am - 25 mins or less from lewisham. 10-8 still no more than an hour and Half unless something is up the swanny
Does it bollocks.
:-D
I done enfield to Poyle for 3 years the m25 is only good before 6 am if you go any later and by that I mean get to any of the big jcts before the M4 by 6
If you was to go from dartford under the tunnel and rd past jct 27,26,25 then you must be there by 6am you need to be at 17,18 by 630 latest
If you go the other way then the jcts as you come rd towards the m4 and heathrow are exactly the same
If I was you I would be going the way you've been advised through town and at the times given
If not you will hate the journey daily
It's a horrible bstd mway the m25 and the m4 is bang in the middle of it you have to approach some of the longest jams it has regardless what way you go
So you want to be hitting that jct at 6 mate
It was only 111 miles from door to door each way but it nearly killed me as I was doing a full day there when I arrived
Get plenty of rest raz as you will be exhausted and go to bed at a suitable time