In message , Tom Robinson
writes
On Mon, 10 Jul 2006 20:45:13 GMT, "AstraVanMan"
wrote:

Victoria Embankment - worth avoiding? I've known this to be a real pain
at the most unexpected of times - would it be worth going via Lambeth
Bridge + Southwark Bridge Road (via St George's Circus) or should it be
fairly ok around this time?

The Highway/Limehouse Link/Aspen Way etc - likely to be all ok heading
out?

I would do the M40/A40 rather than the M4. The M4 leaving London is
pretty good but in the opposite direction you've got the dreaded bus
lane

Best thing since sliced bread - for us taxi drivers! ;-)))

and it's usually pretty busy at that time. Use the M25 if
necessary to get onto the M40 then take the A40 all the way to
Marylebone followed by the A501 round the top of the city and down
onto the A13. The route through the city to get onto the A13 isn't
great but that area should be quietish on a Sunday I reckon.

Try this for a route

Spur Road
M4 East
leave by J3 (next one along)
N on A312 follow until you get to
A40 then all the way through to Euston Rd,
Pentonville Road
City Road
L at Old St Roundabout
Bear right Great Eastern St
Forward Commercial Street
Aldgate one way
then follow signs for A13.
You then get the choice of staying on East India Dock Road or going via
Lime House linkway until you get to roundabout for City airport (where
you cross the meridian from W to E) and just follow signs.

Of course if you really knew London you'd go straight through via the M4
then Cromwell Road, etc to get to Victoria Embankment from Trafalgar
Square but you must be prepared to make diversions if there are
demonstrations or other diversions (strangely enough one of the
straightest routes takes you over Lambeth Bridge and then via the
Rotherhithe Tunnel, but you really must know London for that!)

Good luck with your chosen route

--
Mike Hughes
A Taxi driver licensed for London and Brighton
at home in Tarring, West Sussex, England