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.

[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.

[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