In article , Keith Willshaw
says...
>
> "Pete M" wrote in
> message news:euopoc$tcq$1@registered.motzarella.org...
> > In news:0WOPh.454$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 !
>
Far more freely than the M25 IME. At least outside the times of 7.30-
10am and 4pm-6.30pm you can get a move on. Last time I went from the M1
to the M4 I was surprised to find the traffic still crawling along at
Midday.
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