FFS. All he had to do was to get from Dartford to Heathrow.

Tracker showed him using the Blackwall tunnel and then the Vauxhall bridge -
last I heard he was in Battersea at 5.30pm after leaving Dartford 2 hours
earlier.

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On Mon, 06 Jun 2016 18:22:01 +0100, ARW wrote:

last I heard he was in Battersea at 5.30pm after leaving Dartford 2
hours earlier.

He's not doing too badly, then.

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On Mon, 06 Jun 2016 18:22:01 +0100, ARW wrote:

last I heard he was in Battersea at 5.30pm after leaving Dartford 2
hours earlier.

He's not doing too badly, then.


About an hour and half tops using the M25.

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On Mon, 06 Jun 2016 18:22:01 +0100, ARW wrote:

last I heard he was in Battersea at 5.30pm after leaving Dartford 2
hours earlier.

He's not doing too badly, then.


About an hour and half tops using the M25.

I take it he was using a satnav? They do tend to take you the shortest
route. And through London isn't going to be the quickest way, especially
if blindly following a satnav.

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On 06/06/16 18:39, Dave Plowman (News) wrote:
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ARW wrote:
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On Mon, 06 Jun 2016 18:22:01 +0100, ARW wrote:

last I heard he was in Battersea at 5.30pm after leaving Dartford 2
hours earlier.

He's not doing too badly, then.


About an hour and half tops using the M25.

I take it he was using a satnav? They do tend to take you the shortest
route. And through London isn't going to be the quickest way, especially
if blindly following a satnav.

I wonder if he went through the Congestion Charge zone?

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On 06/06/16 18:39, Dave Plowman (News) wrote:
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On Mon, 06 Jun 2016 18:22:01 +0100, ARW wrote:

last I heard he was in Battersea at 5.30pm after leaving Dartford 2
hours earlier.

He's not doing too badly, then.


About an hour and half tops using the M25.

I take it he was using a satnav? They do tend to take you the shortest
route. And through London isn't going to be the quickest way, especially
if blindly following a satnav.

I wonder if he went through the Congestion Charge zone?


If you approach Vauxhall Bridge from the NE of the river then yes.

When I was working in Lambeth I used to use it on the way in. It is the
boundary to the CC.

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Jeff Layman wrote:
On 06/06/16 18:39, Dave Plowman (News) wrote:
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ARW wrote:
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On Mon, 06 Jun 2016 18:22:01 +0100, ARW wrote:

last I heard he was in Battersea at 5.30pm after leaving Dartford 2
hours earlier.

He's not doing too badly, then.


About an hour and half tops using the M25.

I take it he was using a satnav? They do tend to take you the shortest
route. And through London isn't going to be the quickest way, especially
if blindly following a satnav.

I wonder if he went through the Congestion Charge zone?

Most SatNavs seem to know about that and avoid it, by taking a
cicuitous route around the edge of it.

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Jeff Layman wrote:
I take it he was using a satnav? They do tend to take you the shortest
route. And through London isn't going to be the quickest way,
especially if blindly following a satnav.

I wonder if he went through the Congestion Charge zone?

It should give you the choice.

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On Mon, 06 Jun 2016 18:22:01 +0100, ARW wrote:

last I heard he was in Battersea at 5.30pm after leaving Dartford 2
hours earlier.

He's not doing too badly, then.


About an hour and half tops using the M25.

I take it he was using a satnav? They do tend to take you the shortest
route. And through London isn't going to be the quickest way, especially
if blindly following a satnav.

I wonder if he went through the Congestion Charge zone?

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The Dartford Crossing uses the same ANPR enforcement.
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Most satnavs have choices though shortest or fastest.
Not always the same thing at all even if using public transport or feet.
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"Dave Plowman (News)" wrote in message
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On Mon, 06 Jun 2016 18:22:01 +0100, ARW wrote:

last I heard he was in Battersea at 5.30pm after leaving Dartford 2
hours earlier.

He's not doing too badly, then.


About an hour and half tops using the M25.

I take it he was using a satnav? They do tend to take you the shortest
route. And through London isn't going to be the quickest way, especially
if blindly following a satnav.

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Shortest can give you nice little scenic roads, although often it gives you farm tracks with locked gates.


On Mon, 06 Jun 2016 18:53:02 +0100, Brian Gaff wrote:

Most satnavs have choices though shortest or fastest.
Not always the same thing at all even if using public transport or feet.
Brian



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"Dave Plowman (News)" wrote in message
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On Mon, 06 Jun 2016 18:22:01 +0100, ARW wrote:

last I heard he was in Battersea at 5.30pm after leaving Dartford 2
hours earlier.

He's not doing too badly, then.


About an hour and half tops using the M25.

I take it he was using a satnav? They do tend to take you the shortest
route. And through London isn't going to be the quickest way, especially
if blindly following a satnav.

Years ago I was trying to get from Oxford to somewhere near Greenwich by
car, for work. I wondered about going the long way round via the M25, and
then working my way westwards into Greenwich after crossing the QE2 bridge,
but decided to go the direct way: M40,
Marylebone/Euston/Pentonville/City/Great Eastern/Commercial/Mansell
Roads/Streets (ie A501 and A1202), to cross Tower Bridge and then head
eastwards along the A200 towards Deptford and Greenwich. It was after rush
hour so traffic shouldn't be *too* bad.

Everything went well until I got near Tower Bridge, then the roads were
jammed solid. It took as long to cover the last few miles from there to
Greenwich as it had done from Oxford to Tower Bridge, and I began to wonder
whether I should have gone the long way round.

This was in the days before satnav (probably about 2001), so I wrote myself
a set of turn-by-turn instructions. It was also before the Congestion Charge
so I didn't need to find a route that kept outside the Zone.

"Dave Plowman (News)" wrote in message
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"Adrian" wrote in message
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On Mon, 06 Jun 2016 18:22:01 +0100, ARW wrote:

last I heard he was in Battersea at 5.30pm after leaving Dartford 2
hours earlier.

He's not doing too badly, then.


About an hour and half tops using the M25.

I take it he was using a satnav? They do tend to take you the shortest
route. And through London isn't going to be the quickest way, especially
if blindly following a satnav.

Yes he was using a SatNav - his IPhone. And it's a journey he has dome 3
times - twice as a passenger, once as a driver (with me in the passenger
seat because I had a hangover).





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On Mon, 06 Jun 2016 18:22:01 +0100, ARW wrote:


last I heard he was in Battersea at 5.30pm after leaving Dartford 2
hours earlier.

He's not doing too badly, then.



About an hour and half tops using the M25.

I take it he was using a satnav? They do tend to take you the shortest
route. And through London isn't going to be the quickest way, especially
if blindly following a satnav.


Agreed. I bought a new cheapo 7 inch satnav recently as the
Tomtom clapped out. It is much better at routing than either Tomtom or
her Garmin as it avoids the back lanes and sticks to reasonably main
routes. It's also much easier to read.

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On Mon, 06 Jun 2016 18:22:01 +0100, ARW wrote:


last I heard he was in Battersea at 5.30pm after leaving Dartford 2
hours earlier.

He's not doing too badly, then.



About an hour and half tops using the M25.

I take it he was using a satnav? They do tend to take you the shortest
route. And through London isn't going to be the quickest way, especially
if blindly following a satnav.


Agreed. I bought a new cheapo 7 inch satnav recently as the
Tomtom clapped out. It is much better at routing than either Tomtom or
her Garmin as it avoids the back lanes and sticks to reasonably main
routes. It's also much easier to read.


I don't think I've ever had my satnav (nowadays Google maps on my
phone) direct me through London as opposed to round as the
default route.
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On Mon, 06 Jun 2016 20:38:22 +0100, Capitol wrote:

Dave Plowman (News) wrote:
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wrote:

wrote in message
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On Mon, 06 Jun 2016 18:22:01 +0100, ARW wrote:


last I heard he was in Battersea at 5.30pm after leaving Dartford 2
hours earlier.

He's not doing too badly, then.



About an hour and half tops using the M25.

I take it he was using a satnav? They do tend to take you the shortest
route. And through London isn't going to be the quickest way, especially
if blindly following a satnav.


Agreed. I bought a new cheapo 7 inch satnav recently as the
Tomtom clapped out. It is much better at routing than either Tomtom or
her Garmin as it avoids the back lanes and sticks to reasonably main
routes. It's also much easier to read.

TomTom charged me £60 to update the maps. I'm not buying a Tomtom again.

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"Dave Plowman (News)" wrote in message
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ARW wrote:
"Adrian" wrote in message
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On Mon, 06 Jun 2016 18:22:01 +0100, ARW wrote:

last I heard he was in Battersea at 5.30pm after leaving Dartford 2
hours earlier.

He's not doing too badly, then.


About an hour and half tops using the M25.

I take it he was using a satnav? They do tend to take you the shortest
route. And through London isn't going to be the quickest way, especially
if blindly following a satnav.

Any half decent satnav allows you to choose shortest or quickest.

On 06/06/2016 18:39, Dave Plowman (News) wrote:

I take it he was using a satnav? They do tend to take you the shortest
route.

Only if you set them to do that. Mine is set for fastest and will
readjust the route as I go if there are any delays ahead and a faster
route is possible.

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On 06/06/16 18:27, ARW wrote:
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On Mon, 06 Jun 2016 18:22:01 +0100, ARW wrote:

last I heard he was in Battersea at 5.30pm after leaving Dartford 2
hours earlier.

He's not doing too badly, then.


About an hour and half tops using the M25.

I've taken an hour an a half to get from the A3 junction to Heathrow


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a matter of elementary environmental protection, or a search for
rational mechanisms designed to achieve a healthy environment. Yet
things do occur that make you shake your head and remind yourself that
you live neither in Joseph Stalins Communist era, nor in the Orwellian
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On 06/06/16 18:27, ARW wrote:
"Adrian" wrote in message
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On Mon, 06 Jun 2016 18:22:01 +0100, ARW wrote:

last I heard he was in Battersea at 5.30pm after leaving Dartford 2
hours earlier.

He's not doing too badly, then.


About an hour and half tops using the M25.

I've taken an hour an a half to get from the A3 junction to Heathrow

me too

In fact it was an hour and half from the A3 to the M3

tim