FAO North East Londoners

[NSR Mick]

I have the pleasure of working in the Chase Lane area for 2 days a week for the next month and am staying in a travelodge in Ilford (where I am writing this from) and was wondering how busy the north circular is at 8 in the morning traveling westbound from Ilford towards Chase Lane.

According to Autoroute it's a 10 minute drive, what's a realistic journey time in a car?
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[Barry_M2]

North Circular = Car Park.

Good luck


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[NSR Mick]

[hellkat]

Oooo! Ilford. Dodgy place.

Some right tricky types work round there

Dunno about the north circ travel times.
Is Chase Lane off Enfield somewhere, I think, near the A10 junction?

It would probably be 10-15 minutes on a bike from the Travelodge to Enfield, but in a car: ugh.
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[NSR Mick]

Chase Lane is Chingford way, I'd have no worries on the bike but unfortunatly with all the work related crap I need to carry can't avoid using the car.

And yes it does sem a little dodgy round here. The front door of the Travelodge is permanetly locked and you either have to have a key or be buzzed in.
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[techierob]

There's a quieter route you can take (either crackbrook road/ley street -> barkingside -> tomswood hill -> buckhurst hill -> woodford bridge -> woodford -> chingford). It's probably a couple of miles extra, but that's more-or-less the route I used to take to go from ilford to enfield town by car, and the journey was anywhere from 25-45 minutes door-to-door depending on traffic.
The main bonuses are that the route takes you over the resevoir on king's road in chingford, so there's some nice windy roads and a bit of scenery for a few miles, and there were no speed cameras on the route last I checked (except for one on cranbrook road just before the barkingside tesco).

[Redliner]

[techierob]

[LUXY DJ]

yep north circ @ 8am OR 8 pm = gridlock!

BUT....its filterable

BUT....not in car
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[NSR Mick]

Took just over 30 min setting off at 8:45 after I managed to get my car out of the hotel carpark after some tosser blocked me in.

I only need to do that trip another 8 times.
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