Just thought I'd chuck this in the London group as well.

Yesterday I had the pleasure of driving from Enfield to Putney in the rush
hour (leaving NE Enfield - near Freezy Water, at 5:35pm).

I cut across a few local roads, and across the level crossing at Enfield
Lock station, and down the A1055 (Mollison Avenue / Meridian Way) to the
North Circular, which wasn't too bad. Then around the North Circular to
the
A13, and then along there, along Aspen Way / Limehouse Link, up the
Highway,
over Tower Bridge, around through Lambeth (out of Congestion charging
hours), out on the Embankment, then along Lots Road, up Kings Road and up
to
Putney Bridge. Well, in the end I got fed up with King's Road and cut up
to
Fulham Broadway, and went along the Fulham Road, but I doubt this made all
that much difference to tell the truth.

Anyway, it was all flowing fine all the way up to the Canning Town
flyover,
where it all ground to a halt, with traffic joining from the Woolwich
Ferry.
Took a while to get over there, and then the Highway was slow all the way
to
Tower Bridge, though the bridge itself wasn't too bad. Then it was fine
along the Embankment, and then Kings Road was very slow (and that was
joining it at 1930!) - overall I got to Putney (Lower Richmond Road) at
about 1945.

Would I have been better off going another way? As far as I see it the
only
real alternatives would have been M25 to the M4, M25 to the M40, then A40,
then A3220 down towards Chelsea etc., or A406 anticlockwise towards the
A40,
then A40 into town and A3220. I can't see how any of these would have
been
any quicker - just wondering what people's ideas were?

Cheers,

Peter