Blackfriars Bridge :baghead:

[Ash]

Not as bad as having a needle stuck in your eye, I'm sure, but still pretty **** on a Sunday evening trying to drive back over the river on. I don't use the car much but there are some places you need a car to get to.

All to do with the pesky cycle lanes, I think. No room on the bridge for traffic to get on and double-length traffic lights at either end as all the bicycles get their own go. There was only about one bleedin cyclist on the bridge the whole time took to get over it. AND there's a bus lane which cyclists could use, surely.

[Alberto Balsam Rodriguez]

Not as bad as having a needle stuck in your eye, I'm sure, but still pretty **** on a Sunday evening trying to drive back over the river on. I don't use the car much but there are some places you need a car to get to.

All to do with the pesky cycle lanes, I think. No room on the bridge for traffic to get on and double-length traffic lights at either end as all the bicycles get their own go. There was only about one bleedin cyclist on the bridge the whole time took to get over it. AND there's a bus lane which cyclists could use, surely.

Begs the obvious question.....why go south of the river at all

[Ash]

Begs the obvious question.....why go south of the river at all

Because that's where Brands Hatch is. Though after one three-hour, and one two-and-a-bit hours journey back from there (about 20 miles) in the last few weeks I'm thinking it might be easier to go and watch motorsport at Silverstone instead. It isn't as good as Brands though.

[Burney]

Because that's where Brands Hatch is. Though after one three-hour, and one two-and-a-bit hours journey back from there (about 20 miles) in the last few weeks I'm thinking it might be easier to go and watch motorsport at Silverstone instead. It isn't as good as Brands though.

Surely the M25 is your friend in this situation? After all, Brands is literally just off Junction 3. Better off heading up the A10 to J25 and going around than buggering about driving through London, no?

[Ash]

Surely the M25 is your friend in this situation? After all, Brands is literally just off Junction 3. Better off heading up the A10 to J25 and going around than buggering about driving through London, no?

Thanks for the suggestion. I did consider something like this but I basically never use the M25, and generally prefer driving through London to motorways if there's not gridlock. Driving from Islington to Kent via Tottenham seems well wrong and would be at least 50 miles shirley, but also I gather the Dartford crossing can be as snarly as any other, which is why they're having to build a new one near Gravesend.

I may just have been unlucky the last two Sundays I've done it with big problems in the Blackwall Tunnel which affects everywhere else. Only takes an hour if the traffic is clear.

[Pat Vegas]

Thanks for the suggestion. I did consider something like this but I basically never use the M25, and generally prefer driving through London to motorways if there's not gridlock. Driving from Islington to Kent via Tottenham seems well wrong and would be at least 50 miles shirley, but also I gather the Dartford crossing can be as snarly as any other, which is why they're having to build a new one near Gravesend.

I may just have been unlucky the last two Sundays I've done it with big problems in the Blackwall Tunnel which affects everywhere else. Only takes an hour if the traffic is clear.

go up on the North circular then chuck a left on A13 and go the bridge that way.

Or go through Islington and turn left off of Southgate road through Hackney past that big Tescos and Burberry and go through the Blackwall tunnel that way.

there is no easy way

[Pat Vegas]

Not as bad as having a needle stuck in your eye, I'm sure, but still pretty **** on a Sunday evening trying to drive back over the river on. I don't use the car much but there are some places you need a car to get to.

All to do with the pesky cycle lanes, I think. No room on the bridge for traffic to get on and double-length traffic lights at either end as all the bicycles get their own go. There was only about one bleedin cyclist on the bridge the whole time took to get over it. AND there's a bus lane which cyclists could use, surely.

It also takes forever to cross and is a bit confusing as a pedestrian.