M25 commuters?

I used to do a 200 round mile trip every week for work, joining at the QE bridge from A12...turning off just after gatwick...mind you, i had to leave mine at 5am to get to work by 730-8 every wednesday to make sure i didnt get caught in too much m25 traffic!

Yikes thats quite a long stretch! Makes my 80 miles a day round trip sound piddly!!

By 1130am i was alwasy flagging, i managed to get til 330pm then i left the office, sometimes not getting home til gone 7!!

I do M25 Junction 11 - 15 each morning and then back at the end of the day! ?

Its ok as long as I leave my house around 7am and leave work around 4-430...

I use it semi regularly to go and see the folks, join at J25 heading to J21 for the M1 and vice versa on the way back! We usually try to go v early or v late!

? We are doing opposite directions!! Shall we swop houses?!

I used to do 30-29 and hated that! Was so happy when I moved closer to work!

I only do it when I have to go and visit anybody really, as I live in Kent. Usually join in at Js 3 or 5.

My friend from Brum hates it so much it prevents her from visiting me very often and always causes a MASSSIVE ranty complaint.

I don't yet but when (if) we finally move I will be doing 26-21a in the mornings, and 21a-26 in the evenings.

Takes about 45 minutes to an hour on a good day in rush hour.

Annoyingly only 20 minutes at any other time of day!

Sounds like we should - I actually used to live down the A40 so probably closer to work - we are thinking of moving even further the wrong way around the M25 so an even longer commute!

? I find this sort of thing awful, my friends are all over but it's about making the effort! Tis a whole other story/debate/rant though!

I live along the a40!!!! Right by the polish war memorial!!

After the wedding we are planning to move outside the m25, somewhere along the m3/a30.

Ah you'll be close to me...

I grew up in Harrow hence my A40 comment... M3 / A30 is close to me we used to live in Ascot for a while, keep my horse in Chobham (if you want any local advice drop me a PM my H has lived around these parts for a long time!)

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Edited to say I am a black golf normally speeding along on the M25!!!

Ah I will bear that in mind thank you - be another 9 months yet at least though sadly.

I lived in Harrow twice!

I am white peageot 107 also speeding along whenever possible!!

Ah I will bear that in mind thank you - be another 9 months yet at least though sadly.

I lived in Harrow twice!

I am white peageot 107 also speeding along whenever possible!!

So did I! Well I moved lots but always in the Harrow/Rayners Lane/Pinner/Eastcote area!

I used to commute from J1a - 29 and cos of the toll it could take up to an hour, sometimes only 10 mins. Madness!

Nowadays we only use it to visit H's parents which is the same journey. Tend to avoid it at all costs tho!

I sometimes have to drive to Maidenhead from Essex to get to work, but I spend a lot of time on the M25 as mum and dad still live in Berkshire (as do a lot of my friends).

So junction 28 to 15 and then back again.

Its potentially the most boring bit of road ever!

You are right Nutella. I think we discussed this at RFL too - I have friends that think it's unreasonable for me to expect them to come into London because it's a bit hassle. Yet, they don't think it's the same in always asking me to come to them... I do it, as I want to see people but I don't know what the mental block about coming within the M25 is!!

Talking of M25 woe, last night's journey back to London was one of those where you think fate is conspiring to make sure you never reach your destination! J25 of the M25 was closed overnight but there was no warning on the M1. So as we're pootling along (bearing in mind this should be the last 30 minutes of a 4 hour journey) we see the sign and think we could go off at J23 and head for the North Circular, at J24 and head to Enfield on A roads or J26 and come back on ourselves through Walthamstow. I hate the N Circular and J26 is going out of our way, so we head to Enfield via J24. Only to get half way down that road to discover a sign saying that the junction with the A10 (which we need) is closed. *sigh*

Got home eventually and know a bit more about Enfield now

IMHO the toll should be removed for several reasons.

The pollution from several miles of cars each way twice every day during rush hours..

The flow of traffic around London would be improved dramatically and reduce travel time.

Residents in the area cannot cross the Thames without serious delays.

The planning permission for the bridge was granted on the promise that once the cost of the bridge was paid for by the tolls, the tolls would cease(the bridge was paid for years ago and yet the tolls remain)

Ok...there are many other reasons and if this was in France, the blockade tractors would have been out in protest years ago......