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Travelling from SE London to N Cambridge on Sat to see my Dad - a trip I do regularly - took 3hrs instead of the usual 2 or so. There was an accident near Harlow which Waze missed, but the main issue seems to have been ca 10 miles of slow/stationary traffic immediately south of Cambridge.
Waze took us on a long detour to avoid it, up the A11 to Newmarket, then back to Cambridge on the A14 W. IT was the same story on the way back - over an hour to the Stansted junction instead of the usual 30 mins.
Does anyone know what the issue is - and if it is roadworks, how long are they scheduled to last?
TIA
Waze took us on a long detour to avoid it, up the A11 to Newmarket, then back to Cambridge on the A14 W. IT was the same story on the way back - over an hour to the Stansted junction instead of the usual 30 mins.
Does anyone know what the issue is - and if it is roadworks, how long are they scheduled to last?
TIA
It's gotten worse since the opening of new bit of the A14.
The A14 has increased capacity so more are keen to use that than the M1 but the stretch of the M11 between Stansted and Cambridge is only dual lane so additional traffic is being squeezed through a smaller space. It only takes one multi-mile overtake of one HGV by another and you have miles of slow moving traffic that concertinas and occasionally stops.
The A14 has increased capacity so more are keen to use that than the M1 but the stretch of the M11 between Stansted and Cambridge is only dual lane so additional traffic is being squeezed through a smaller space. It only takes one multi-mile overtake of one HGV by another and you have miles of slow moving traffic that concertinas and occasionally stops.
A large proportion of it was some twit in a fiesta doing 35 mph all the way through the roadworks, completely empty road in front of him and a colossal tail back behind. One or two people took to the hard shoulder to get past. I was third behind the rolling road block, behind two artics...
The trouble is that the knock-on effect of him going so slow is that it massively impedes the traffic prior to the roadworks as it merges into the one lane.
The trouble is that the knock-on effect of him going so slow is that it massively impedes the traffic prior to the roadworks as it merges into the one lane.
Interesting and timely
I've not been that way for years but I'm heading to Harwich on Friday from Liverpool and was planning on taking the A14 from the bottom of the M6 and then down the M11 to Stansted with maybe a stop at the IWM Duxford
Would I be better to continue on the A14 and not the M11 ?
I've not been that way for years but I'm heading to Harwich on Friday from Liverpool and was planning on taking the A14 from the bottom of the M6 and then down the M11 to Stansted with maybe a stop at the IWM Duxford
Would I be better to continue on the A14 and not the M11 ?
Earthdweller said:
Interesting and timely
I've not been that way for years but I'm heading to Harwich on Friday from Liverpool and was planning on taking the A14 from the bottom of the M6 and then down the M11 to Stansted with maybe a stop at the IWM Duxford
Would I be better to continue on the A14 and not the M11 ?
As above. A14 the simplest option.I've not been that way for years but I'm heading to Harwich on Friday from Liverpool and was planning on taking the A14 from the bottom of the M6 and then down the M11 to Stansted with maybe a stop at the IWM Duxford
Would I be better to continue on the A14 and not the M11 ?
But if you did want to do Duxford, head down the A1(M) and swing a left onto the A505 at Baldock. That will take you to the Museum. From there, you can cross-country it to the A120 the other side of Braintree. Some lovely little villages and towns on that route too - Saffron Walden, Finchingfield, Thaxted.
But not Braintree
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