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This is something that has been annoying me for months now, and i really can't think why this phenomenon occurs.
My morning commute takes me from Watford to Slough, using Jcn19-16 on the M25. The M25 is, of course, hell at this time of the morning (8am), and the 25miles to work takes 45-50 minutes in normal traffic.
WHY then, is it the case that EVERY Monday, without fail, the same journey takes at least 1hour 20minutes, ie. 80 minutes, nearly twice as long?!?
Surely there is a logical answer to this somewhere?
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A lot of people travel down and stay in and around London to work for 5 days traveling home again on Friday night.
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Renault Family,
You beat me to it!
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One possible explanation is the incresing number of people who work away from home, or abroad -(travelling from/to Heathrow/Gatwick and Stanstead), during the week, only to return on a Friday evening which is when I notice that my M25 journeys take longer.
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I experience the same around Manchester and did so for years when I commuted over to Leeds. Not as bad as described but a 50 minute drive to Leeds was always 1hr15 on Mondays. Fridays correspondingly better but that I put down to long weekends but that wouldn't explain the Monday extra traffic.
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Same for me travelling from West Leeds to Bradford every morning. Mondays busiest, Thursdays quietest. I also travel on the M62 every Thusday from Leeds to Manchester leaving just before 7pm, during the summer I can do the 40 miles in about 40 minutes, but as soon as the clocks go back it takes upwards of an hour, generally due to queuing traffic around jcn 27. My theory on this is fewer people are on hoilday at this time of year therefore increasing traffic levels.
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I should think it was a bad day today; I was doing the M25 from the M4 to the Watford turning around 8:45 this morning and the opposite direction was solid all the way.
However, normally I commute Bicester to Watford which is 39 miles and 41 minutes and totally stress free.
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Waves to Mark .........
I was going the other way about the same time.......
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sorry thats "not going anywhere" the other way
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This morning there was a little light to heavy drizzle. It took me nearly twenty minutes to get from Bromley South station to Bromley North. The traffic was extremely heavy compared to yesterday. Is it just the case that Mummy can't bear little Sebastian/Jocasta to get wet?
Cheers
Rob
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I agree that the weather makes a big difference. Doesn't matter if it's morning or evening. One evening last week it took me 45 minutes to travel 8 miles on the M60 (J3 to J7)in Manchester, it was throwing it down. The next night, lovely clear night and I was home from work and parked up on my drive in just over 15 minutes!
GC
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One evening last week it tookme 45 minutes to travel 8 miles on the M60 (J3 to J7)in Manchester, it was throwing it down.
Same anticlock J17 to 13 when it rains. More than halves the average speed, and doubles the time.
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Yep me too RF and Mark - As a result i got in late (again) and received a slapped wrist from my boss and the loss of my 'Good Timekeeping Bonus' (which isnt actually a bonus its 10% of your days pay you lose if late!)
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You poor souls. Blame the government for not doing more to spread jobs around the country from the south east. I used to comute from Bishop's Stortford to Harlow in Essex - 14 miles in 50 minutes. Now the same length of journey takes me less than 20 minutes to commute to my job in Scotland.
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Well governments have been trying to spread the jobs out since the 1930s; doesn't seem to have worked too well. Still a choice between a packed train or a packed motorway...ho hum
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It's carp every day on the M1.
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