"Pete M" wrote in
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> In news:0WOPh.454$r4.246@newsfe1-gui.ntli.net,
> JWBH wittered on forthwith;
>> I will have to make a journey on a regular basis (mainly at weekends)
>> from north london U.K. (finchley central) to edenbridge in kent,
>> which is due south of london.
>>
>> The online RAC route planner tells me if i go all the way around the
>> M25 instead of going down through the centre of london is will be
>> almost exactly *twice* the milage. the time scale they estimate for
>> both routes is very similar, being within ten minutes of the other
>> route.
>> Since my son drives we would travel pretty briskly on both routes.
>> The car is a twelve year old toyota corolla 1.3 GL.
>>
>> Just off the top of your head, which way of travelling, either down
>> through London or going around the M25, is likely to work out the
>> most 'economical' purely from the petrol consumption point of view?
>> thanks.
>
> the most sensible thing to do is leave the blighted and inferior South and
> move up north where we don't have these problems.
>
Right - all those cars on the M6 and M62 around Manchester move
freely I suppose !
Keith
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