Manchester to London, will I make it?

[VladtheImpala]

Help.

I'm due to go to London on Tuesday 21st June for an lunch meeting. There is a train strike so I face driving from Manchester.

I haven't been down for years so have no idea of that traffic.

Should I bother trying (will I make it to the meeting?) or will I be in traffic jams until the evening?

[Wacky Racer]

Hard to say but the M6/M1 can be very slow with Roadworks.

I would allow at least 5/6 hours.

[bigandclever]

I'd be 100% confirming that whoever you're meeting is going to be there, the underground will be disrupted as well (separate dispute, still the RMT, still a planned strike for the 21st).

[mmm-five]

I do the Liverpool to London (Brentford) trip frequently, and I go down the night before instead.

Can be the difference between a straightforward 3h15m trip and a 7 hour nightmare!

Where in London do you need to get to, as the few extra miles into Central London can add hours to that trip on a bad day...and of course with the strikes, it WILL be a bad day

My alternative was to leave early (4-5am) to try and beat most of the traffic...but you still risked getting snarled up at the bottom of the M40/M1/M25 if you weren't off it by 7am.

Edited by mmm-five on Wednesday 15th June 16:06

[VladtheImpala]

Screw it, I've cancelled the meeting.

Thanks for the info/advice, it doesn't sound worth it!

[Chromegrill]

VladtheImpala said:

Screw it, I've cancelled the meeting.

Thanks for the info/advice, it doesn't sound worth it!

Having to allow up to eight hours each way plus however many hundreds of quid on fuel does beg the question how valuable a lunchtime face to face has to be these days, especially when in most cases you could find a way to do it on Zoom for nothing and have all that time and fuel back?

[VladtheImpala]

Chromegrill said:

Having to allow up to eight hours each way plus however many hundreds of quid on fuel does beg the question how valuable a lunchtime face to face has to be these days, especially when in most cases you could find a way to do it on Zoom for nothing and have all that time and fuel back?

It was worth six figuires potentially, but I totally agree. I didn't go.