RANDOM A40 Westway queues!! Westbound in the morning.

RANDOM A40 Westway queues!! Westbound in the morning.

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yojay

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61 posts

170 months

Monday 11th July 2011
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Little bit of a rant but does anyone else take the Westway towards Marylebone weekday mornings?

The queues sometimes stretch back all the way to the Paddington exit, BUT other mornings you can bomb all the up the the lights joining Marylebone road. Almost completely at random too, and your unable to judge the traffic until you stuck in it. And its really a 50/50 mix at the SAME time every morning. In my 12 months of commuting there seems to be no rhyme or reason to there being a queue or not.

The only saving grace of being caught in the traffic is the audibly tuned blue Ford Focus that bombs past at full chat on the empty eastbound site. Hat off to whoever that is, I open the window when I see him coming!! Pure induction roar... Anyone else see/hear this guy?

So there are shortcuts I can take, which I am willing to divulge to other PHers(!), but the A40 is quickest by far when clear.

A webcam showing the queues in the morning would be ace!

Anyone got any insights?




Carlton Banks

3,643 posts

242 months

Wednesday 13th July 2011
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There is an iphone app that has a 'London Cam'.

Maybe this would work?

Big Raff

1,340 posts

177 months

Thursday 14th July 2011
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I used to do that journey daily and it is pure pot luck!

The general way i got around it was if you were at Gypsy Corner before 8.10 you will sail through...a moment after and you could be in for a wait.