AstraVanMan wrote:
A friend of mine coming from the west on the M4, hoping to get to London
City Airport by around 6pm on a Sunday evening - what's the traffic
likely to be like?

Specific points I'm thinking of a

M4 from J3 into Chiswick - is this likely to bunch up much (we're
talking around 5pm or so at a guess), with people coming back into
London from weekends away?

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?

TIA,

Peter

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"For want of the price of tea and a slice, the old man died."

I travel this route (Chiswick Roundabout to City Airport) fortnightly
at the same time late Sunday afternoon.

Generally the best route is the straight one down the A4 all the way up
to the Trafalgar Sq. Then Northumberland Ave running to the Embankment.
Then follow the Highway/Limehouse Link/Aspen Way down to City Airport.

Hotspots are a bit of congestion on the A4 in Chiswick but is generally
fine.
Otherwise Trafalgar Square can be a bottle neck especially if there is
an event on as Sunday drivers will slow down and look and there are
kamikaze pedestrians.
And a little queue into Piccadilly Circus. Sometimes theres a queue
into the limehouse link. But both of these queues run smoothly most of
the time.
It'll take one hour. Less if theres no problem.

I sometimes do the A40 (when I feel like a change) but you can
sometimes hit major tailbacks coming off the Westway at Paddington and
once again on Commerical Street. If you do get caught then it'll add
another 20 minutes to half an hour. But on a clear day this route is
quicker by about 5 minutes.

There are variations on the A4 route but generally they'll do the same
thing but with more/less congestion or complexity.