NW to Dover - M25 direction?
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Nonsense, I do this route all the time.
M1 is a mare due to all the road works and 50 limits.
Officially, from Brum to Ashford where I live, it's only slightly longer going via M40, but without question, every single time, I've done better M40 way (awaits to be stuck for 8 days on M40 now)
M1 is a mare due to all the road works and 50 limits.
Officially, from Brum to Ashford where I live, it's only slightly longer going via M40, but without question, every single time, I've done better M40 way (awaits to be stuck for 8 days on M40 now)
Ha, made the mistake of telling the missus I'd posted on PH. She knows my username so went and had a look and is know ribbing me and laughing at the inconsistency of replies!! Typical blokes she says.
Think I'm going to do Chester > M6 at Holmes Chapel > Toll > M1 > M25 Dartford > M20. Need to get there for 14.00, so setting off before 9.
Hopefully the storms up here aren't heading south as it'll be a choppy ferry journey! Severe weather warning for North Wales on the Met Office.
Ta, CH
Think I'm going to do Chester > M6 at Holmes Chapel > Toll > M1 > M25 Dartford > M20. Need to get there for 14.00, so setting off before 9.
Hopefully the storms up here aren't heading south as it'll be a choppy ferry journey! Severe weather warning for North Wales on the Met Office.
Ta, CH
Frankly, you're buggered either way.
It's either going to be Heathrow or Dartford that slow you down.
There's roadworks all over the north stretch and I'm not sure it's possible to miss them completely whichever way you go.
All else being equal I'd say M1, Clockwise.
But with roadworks on the M1 from Luton to London then the M1 is terrible.
So, perhaps M40 and anti.
Flip a coin.
(M25 trivia. The 1,2,3,4 motorways that come of the M25 follow the compass points.
1 North, 2 East, 3 South, 4 West.
You may already know that, but it might get me a few QI points.)
It's either going to be Heathrow or Dartford that slow you down.
There's roadworks all over the north stretch and I'm not sure it's possible to miss them completely whichever way you go.
All else being equal I'd say M1, Clockwise.
But with roadworks on the M1 from Luton to London then the M1 is terrible.
So, perhaps M40 and anti.
Flip a coin.
(M25 trivia. The 1,2,3,4 motorways that come of the M25 follow the compass points.
1 North, 2 East, 3 South, 4 West.
You may already know that, but it might get me a few QI points.)
Snowboy said:
M25 trivia. The 1,2,3,4 motorways that come of the M25 follow the compass points.
1 North, 2 East, 3 South, 4 West.
You may already know that, but it might get me a few QI points.
All road-numbering (broadly) follows this from 1 to 6 around a compass. We did it here a couple of months ago, IIRC.1 North, 2 East, 3 South, 4 West.
You may already know that, but it might get me a few QI points.
FWIW, M1 s/bound on a Friday isn't bad, even through the roadworks. M25 clockwise every time for me if going to Dover.
Agreed that it is a lottery really.
M1 is full of roadworks, so is the northern stretch and the eastern stretch, plus Friday pm traffic for the crossing. After Dartford you should be good.
The other way, M40 is usually clear and fast, M25 will be slow M40-A3 and there are roadworks for the new service station, but I would suspect it won't be as bad.
That said, if there's an accident all bets are off. I think I would go M40 and anticlock.
The reason the replies are inconsistent is because there's no right answer!
M1 is full of roadworks, so is the northern stretch and the eastern stretch, plus Friday pm traffic for the crossing. After Dartford you should be good.
The other way, M40 is usually clear and fast, M25 will be slow M40-A3 and there are roadworks for the new service station, but I would suspect it won't be as bad.
That said, if there's an accident all bets are off. I think I would go M40 and anticlock.
The reason the replies are inconsistent is because there's no right answer!
same thoughts as everyone else, its abit of a lottery.
if i were in the lorry heading from your direction, to get a ferry from dover, i would def go m40, then anti clockwise onto the m25, stay on the m25, then after clackett lane services, cut across the m26, to get on the m20 and onto dover. you'll miss all the road works on the top side of the m25, which are a pain, not to say you may get held up in an incident on the bottom side though, escpecially on a friday.
good luck.
if i were in the lorry heading from your direction, to get a ferry from dover, i would def go m40, then anti clockwise onto the m25, stay on the m25, then after clackett lane services, cut across the m26, to get on the m20 and onto dover. you'll miss all the road works on the top side of the m25, which are a pain, not to say you may get held up in an incident on the bottom side though, escpecially on a friday.
good luck.
I often go M40 then M25. If aiming for Dover - I'd take the anti-clockwise stretch. You will have to go through the variable speed limit, and might find a few delays, but the clockwise n-bound stretch has the roadworks, which combined with the M1 and M11 junctions, get very slow very often. Dartford toll is a pain, I've always had to queue, so for me anti-clockwise would be the best bet.
M40 is unlikely to give you any trouble, except possibly southbound on a Sunday evening (4-7pm) - there's always a long queue then for some reason.
M40 is unlikely to give you any trouble, except possibly southbound on a Sunday evening (4-7pm) - there's always a long queue then for some reason.
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