Travelling from Berkshire to near Crewe, avoid the motorways?

mark5

I usually make it through Birmingham, then get caught at Stoke, I might give that M54/A5 advice a go next time.

unforeseen

mark5 wrote: »

I usually make it through Birmingham, then get caught at Stoke, I might give that M54/A5 advice a go next time.

You're ok to Telford then it gets busy on the Telford - Shrewsbury stretch but you still keep a good speed.

Watch out for the Kamikazes coming out of Telford. They seem to ignore the fact that there is already traffic on the road that they are trying to join 😀

AdrianC

For a run like that, trying to avoid motorways out of fear of congestion simply means you will take FAR longer to arrive.... It's a daft idea.

If you don't want to hit Brum at 5pm on a Friday (wise!), leave earlier. It's 5pm on a Friday on all the other roads, too, and you don't get much school-run chaos on the motorways.