M25 commute - how bad?

[Fred Bloggs]

I have been asked to make visits to Leatherhead a couple or three days a week from a job I am doing near Uxbridge. As a complete stranger to the area, if I get on the M25 about 6.15am and return about 5.30pm will I actually be able to get round that part of the M25? Thanks.

[fullyautomatix]

I have been asked to make visits to Leatherhead a couple or three days a week from a job I am doing near Uxbridge. As a complete stranger to the area, if I get on the M25 about 6.15am and return about 5.30pm will I actually be able to get round that part of the M25? Thanks.

Veeeeeery optimistic. Try it a few days and you will lose the will to live.

You could even start a thread "Daily rants from a M25 commuter".

[Fred Bloggs]

Suspected that would be the case!

[bobspud]

If you pull up google maps for the m25 then select show traffic. You can then change the setting from live traffic to historic by time of day.

[kaiser78]

I have been asked to make visits to Leatherhead a couple or three days a week from a job I am doing near Uxbridge. As a complete stranger to the area, if I get on the M25 about 6.15am and return about 5.30pm will I actually be able to get round that part of the M25? Thanks.

Good luck - nuff said...

[Fred Bloggs]

If you pull up google maps for the m25 then select show traffic. You can then change the setting from live traffic to historic by time of day.

Yes, tried that, it looked do-able at 6.30am and after 5.30pm, hence the question here for those local to the area.

[Fred Bloggs]

Good luck - nuff said...

Ta!

[Clippy]

You should be able to but traffic will be heavy.
(This assessment is based on commuting a similar journey several years ago).

An alternative option, which might be better is A3/M3 picked up, I believe from J3 of the M4 (Heathrow/Hounslow).

[Fred Bloggs]

You should be able to but traffic will be heavy.
(This assessment is based on commuting a similar journey several years ago).

An alternative option, which might be better is A3/M3 picked up, I believe from J3 of the M4.

Thanks I'll look at that.

[NotAllThere]

I commuted Brentwood to Uxbridge and back for nearly two years. Usually 3 hours per day on the road. First hint of congestion - dive into the left hand lane (unless it's one of those that becomes a slip road). But that was 10 years ago.