Waterlooville to Weybridge ... Daily ??

[djt100]

Hi

We were looking to move to Bournemouth, but change of policy at work means now no work from home is going to be available. thats a real PITA as we were looking forward to being seaside(or very close).

So we've been looking about and with the opening of the hindhead tunnel Waterlooville, Horndean, Clanfield,etc all seem to be ok to commute back up to weybridge. But anyone do a similar journey and care to comment, is it feasible. Google maps says about 1 hour . seems to be some very nice properties in the area at sensible prices compared to epsom. and on a trip down at the weekend the area seemed nice, with petersfeild down the road and portsmouth the other way and 30 mins to the coast.

[NormalWisdom]

I've just started doing Wokingham to Havant (the other way to you so probably against the general rush-hour flow). Very easy for me and a pleasant pootle. 1hr 10m leaving at 6.30am

[SeeFive]

It ain't great, but nowhere is from down here - M27 / M3 north is grim most days. I used to do Port Solent to Paddington a lot in 2014/15 on the A3 - a good 3 hours each way, typically worse going in.

On the A3, Guildford chocks back towards Hindhead when there is the slightest issue, and even when there isn't, if you are not north of Guildford before 6:45-7:00am, you will be in a fair bit of that traffic heading to London. This mess is then immediately followed by rush hour traffic heading to Guildford and outer M25 area, and then of course there is the A3 / M25 junction.

Same coming home, Guildford tailing to Chobham some days, other days just a couple of miles tailback from Guildford and up to the Hogs Back. After that A3 is pretty good except for poor 2 lane discipline and at times of shunts. I think you will do much better than my journey as you don't have the rest of London traffic to wade through, but don't know about traffic between the A3 and Weybridge.

Used to do M3 from Basingrad to Weybridge (via M25 Chertsey jct) which wasn't bad, just a bit sticky in places from Fleet services onwards going in some days, ok coming back except M25/M3 jct tailbacks - but it was long before the smart motorway M3 so has all changed I am sure.

But living by the sea is well worth it. Just the long Paddington working / commuting days made it a weekend pleasure only. I now work from home a lot and life is massively better as I am no longer in the car at 6am, and I am back in front of my dinner way before the old, usual 8-8:30 every night. Personally, I would phone some head hunters, move house and grit your teeth for a short while waiting for the new job. One thing is for sure, that commute isn't going to get any better.

[HTP99]

Just to give you an idea of what it is like from Guildford to Weybridge.

I do Guildford (Merrow so north Guildford which is a massive bonus) to Weybridge; 12.5 miles, leave home at 8:00, if I went solely A3 (which I don't) it'll take around and hour, if there is an accident; quite common, it will take significantly longer.

Going the back roads it is 45 mins.

My colleague lives in Aldershot, it usually takes an hour and a half for him, he leaves around 7:30.

It can back up heavily from the A3/M25 junction up to the BP garage near Send/Ripley area also the Cobham junction just after the M25 is usually a real bh.

Edited by HTP99 on Tuesday 14th June 21:54

Edited by HTP99 on Tuesday 14th June 21:56

[djt100]

SeeFive said:

Personally, I would phone some head hunters, move house and grit your teeth for a short while waiting for the new job. One thing is for sure, that commute isn't going to get any better.

this is the short term plan, I've already got the job alerts setup so if anything comes up I can go for it.

Just think its going to a be a nicer place to be away from all the chav's and idiots where I live (and I live in a so called good area)

I'm going to be doing the journey as much as possible on a Bike so hopefully that will ease the pain a little.

[ging84]

I used to do it, but only on an occasional basis
Without traffic it was an hour, some times slightly less.

With usual traffic leaving at 7am it was just about doable in 1hour30 minutes, but much longer delays are fairly common

But i don't think it's actually that much worse than doing it from somewhere much closer

Most of the delays tend to come from godalming onwards.

I had a college travelling from the guildford area, and he couldn't really leave much later than me as although i was a god half hour further down the A3, it took me less than 5 minutes to get to the A3, it would take him 20+ minutes, then he'd still hit all the same delays as me further up.

[djt100]

ging84 said:

I used to do it, but only on an occasional basis
Without traffic it was an hour, some times slightly less.

With usual traffic leaving at 7am it was just about doable in 1hour30 minutes, but much longer delays are fairly common

But i don't think it's actually that much worse than doing it from somewhere much closer

Most of the delays tend to come from godalming onwards.

I had a college travelling from the guildford area, and he couldn't really leave much later than me as although i was a god half hour further down the A3, it took me less than 5 minutes to get to the A3, it would take him 20+ minutes, then he'd still hit all the same delays as me further up.

Thanks, that makes sense, did you do the journey with the new tunnel or before it was in place ? It takes me an hour in the car coming from Epsom at the moment, so A little longer I can handle, however I'm planning on getting a Bike/Large scooter to do the journey as its the bits off the A3 that will cause the issue closer to weybridge


On another note, does anyone think the journey would be better via the M3, if so we can look at different area's along the M3 corridor as well as the A3 corridor.

Thanks

Del

[Crafty_]

I can't see the M3 being any better. Most mornings traffic is at a stop where M27 feeds on to the M3 by 7:30, to get past Chandlers Ford from the M27 will take you maybe 20 every day at that time, you'd need to leave Waterlooville at 6am (preferably earlier) to avoid it.