"Earl Purple" wrote:
The parts of the A406 you may find slow are around Henlys Corner (A1
junction) (not usually so bad in that direction, worse the other way)
and Bounds Green to Palmers Green. There are some road-works at the
moment just before Henlys Corner but they are night-time only and
shouldn't affect you.

I'd avoid that bit of the North Circular at any time bar the dead of night.
It is truly atrocious.

The M25 route is a long way round. Might be worthwhile though. As an
alternative to leaving at M11 you can leave at J24 and take the A111
until it meets the North Circular at the Great Cambridge Roundabout.
That road is generally fairly clear except for a small hold-up in the
middle of Southgate.

No point in that, when it'll be much easier (IMHO) to go up to the A10
junction, then A1055 to the North Circular (past Enfield Lock + Ponders
End).

Then there is the "central" route:

A40 all the way to Marylebone (where it becomes A501)

left onto A4201 (Albany Street) (just after Regents Park, which you can
go through as an alternative). Follow the road round into Parkway and
at Britannia Junction (Camden Town) take A503 Camden Road and follow
this road all the way to Walthamstow.

Have you *ever* driven that route? That's a ****ing nightmare. A503 out of
town from Camden towards Seven Sisters is, well, nightmare doesn't begin to
describe it.

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