uk route advice please :)

I hope this isn't too of topic!

I live near Coventry UK and have easy access to the a45 and a46.

I'm going to be commuting to Milton Keynes every day.

online route planners suggest my best route is a46,a45,m45,m1 and claim it
will take 45 minutes. I doubt this in rush hour!

Is there anybody out there who would use a different route in rush hour?

Thanks in anticipation

 

That doesn't sound unreasonable on a bike... Slow, if anything.
I did MK to Derby in an hour the other day.

Filtering will make mincemeat of rush hour traffic.

 

I commuted from Leicester to MK for 5 years and used the M1 - Usually its
faster, but I learned many of the back roads around Northampton during those
inevitable motorway traffic jams. You should certainly consider the A5 for
some light relief from time to time.

I now live in MK

Good luck!

 

Sacrilege I know, but I am not a biker

 

Broons Bane wrote in

but you are a top posting ****

 

A colleague of mine was living in Rugby and commuting to MK and he used to
manage it in 45 minutes each day.

The trick is to know that once you get on the M45 you can go as fast as you
like; as Jeremy Clarkson put it, "The biggest risk of speeding on the M45 is
that you might hit a sheep that's grazing in the fast lane".


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The speccy Geordie twat.

 

Broons Bane expressed the following:

As someone has already mentioned the M45 is where you do top speed runs
whatever the time of day. I've done Kenilworth to Upminster in Essex
(A46, A45, M45, M1 and round to junct 29 of the M25) on a weekday
morning in about 90 minutes. The only time I haven't got past MK in 40
minutes was because the M1 was shut at Junct 15 due to an accident and
the resulting traffic laden diversion took me past the outskirts of MK
in about 50-60 minutes.....and I'm a complete wuss.

In my experience the traffic on the M1 only gets really bad once you get
past MK.

HTH

 

It was somewhere around Barstow, on the edge of the desert, when the
drugs began to take hold. I remember "Broons Bane"

What's the point of posting in ukrm, then? Any bike-related replies will
not be relevant to you.

Otoh,,, you could get a bike on the road and reap the benefits.

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Dave

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FUB KotL OSOS#12? UKRMMA#19 COSOC#10

 

Because this was one of only two newsgroups in the uk that I could find that
seemed to remotely be able to help with my questions.

 

It's very tempting, but I'm too safety conscious. I've never met a biker who
hasn't come off it.

 

Interesting. thanks.

 

didn't fancy uk.railway then

tim

 

Broons Bane expressed the following:

....and you're unlikely to meet any in UKRM.

Having said that, I haven't fallen off my bike in over 14 years[1]

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Chris H,
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[1] tempts fate.

 

And I hope none of you ever do fall off.

Good luck guys and thanks for the advice.