Advanced Warning - M25 - Avoid!

[RenesisEvo]

Northbound, clockwise - lots of delays, from J19 to 24 and massive queue up to the Dartford crossing (20 miles!!), also a very very long queue anti-clockwise on the south stretch. I hope this message saves at least one person from getting stuck!

I was going to do J16 to J29 later on, but with a current total of 2.5hrs delay, I think I'll leave it for a while

http://www.bbc.co.uk/travelnews/londonm25/

[RenesisEvo]

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[Perd Hapley]

"M25 - Avoid!"

Good advice whatever the conditions.

[RenesisEvo]

Perd Hapley said:

Good advice whatever the conditions.

Well yes, but tonight especially, unless you really fancy sitting in your car going nowhere for three hours.

[confused_buyer]

As the M25 is back to J27 and supposedly under the new rules they can open the tolls if it back to J28 the barriers are, I presume, all up?

[Wattsie]

RenesisEvo said:

Perd Hapley said:

Good advice whatever the conditions.

Well yes, but tonight especially, unless you really fancy sitting in your car going nowhere for three hours.

How do you mean "tonight", it's like that every time I'm funking there!

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[NiceCupOfTea]

According to Google Maps it's a car park between Potters Bar and Sevenoaks anticlockwise

Edited by NiceCupOfTea on Friday 29th July 18:22

[RenesisEvo]

If you've seen my rant in the Lounge you'd understand.

Although it's a little out of date, if you sum the length of the queues the BBC travel site lists for right now, there's 75 miles of queues - nearly a third of the total length of the entire motorway (in both directions). It's normally really bad on a Friday, but today it's especially bad.

[MrMagoo]

Too late

[EDLT]

Traffic on the M25, on a Friday, the week after the schools shut?!

Madness this is!

[Diderot]

confused_buyer said:

As the M25 is back to J27 and supposedly under the new rules they can open the tolls if it back to J28 the barriers are, I presume, all up?

The bds didn't do this a few Sunday's back when I was queuing for over 2 hours. Get through the tolls, and zero traffic. s.

[DanSaff]

Glad im not there!! I got caught on sat had 10 miles of very slow stop start traffic right up to the gates!!!!! Sat nave went from 215pm arrival to 430pm :-( and I was in my cossie with a 6paddle clutch :-(:-( fooking nightmare hill/bridge starts

[Tallbut Buxomly]

annnnnd heres there response to the queues...

http://www.kentnews.co.uk/news/dartford_toll_chief...

But dont worry they plan on raising the toll to 2.50 in the new year apparently.

[RenesisEvo]

EDLT said:

the week after the schools shut?

Aaah see the schools where I am are already off on holiday, I expected the worst traffic to have been last Friday, going on what happened the last few years. So I've overlooked something e.g. schools closing at different times.

[NiceCupOfTea]

bds. They should be getting rid of the charge altogether.

[LeftMuffin]

Just come from the M1 to Jct 28 on the M25 no problems pretty free flowing traffic.

[thinfourth2]

Perd Hapley said:

"M25 - Avoid!"

Good advice whatever the conditions.

Its worked for me for the past 8 years

[va1o]

Thought it was meant to be better in the holidays? I've got to do J21-J16 every morning starting next week...

[anonymous-user]

Tallbut Buxomly said:

annnnnd heres there response to the queues...

http://www.kentnews.co.uk/news/dartford_toll_chief...

But dont worry they plan on raising the toll to 2.50 in the new year apparently.

They couldn't care less about congestion or pollution could they? When I am king they will be first against the wall.

[Zed Ed]

Way too cheap

£5 for a car