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Dartford Crossing

Off_it
Off_it Posts: 28,845
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Need a little bit of advice. Might be going over to Tilbury tomorrow morning - need to be there for 9am - and was wondering what the traffic is normally like going south to north at about 8am on a Friday morning.

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  • JT
    JT Posts: 12,348
    Absolutely dead mate.
  • holyjo
    holyjo Posts: 1,326
    or absolutely heaving !
  • Wilma
    Wilma Posts: 1,618
    Busy! Usually moving, but sometimes stopped. Try and join the M25 at the last point at Dartford and miss most of the queue.

    Was jammed solid in both directions this morning when I passed over it on the bus but I think there had been an accident.
  • Off_it
    Off_it Posts: 28,845
    JT said:

    Absolutely dead mate.

    Great. Thanks.

    Will have an extra hour in bed and leave home around ten to 9 then.
  • cs1986
    cs1986 Posts: 1,529
    Should be ok, I never have trouble on X80 bus 3 days a week, lovely grays in essex.
  • Macronate
    Macronate Posts: 12,890
    you might be alright on a Friday during a half term.

    although I have heard through a source that a group is planning a massive march through the tunnels tomorrow at about 8am on behalf the Society for Being Ripped Off By These Blood Sucking Parasites Who Keep Putting The F****** Charge Up Even Though It Was Paid Off Years Ago or SBROBSPWKPTFCUETIWPOYA for short.
  • Plaaayer
    Plaaayer Posts: 8,997
    edited November 2012
    cs1986 said:

    Should be ok, I never have trouble on X80 bus 3 days a week, lovely grays in essex.

    I was working in Grays a couple of months ago, I didn't think I could ever see a place that is worse than Woolwich, it was like something out of The Hills Have Eyes!

    Should be raised to the ground.
  • cafcfan
    cafcfan Posts: 11,198
    Plaaayer said:

    cs1986 said:

    Should be ok, I never have trouble on X80 bus 3 days a week, lovely grays in essex.

    I was working in Grays a couple of months ago, I didn't think I could ever see a place that is worse than Woolwich, it was like something out of The Hills Have Eyes!

    Should be raised to the ground.
    Isn't there a book: 50 Hades of Grays or something?
  • randy andy
    randy andy Posts: 5,454
    Depending where in Tilbury you need to go you could always park up in Gravesend and get the Tilbury ferry
  • Off_it
    Off_it Posts: 28,845
    randy andy said:

    Depending where in Tilbury you need to go you could always park up in Gravesend and get the Tilbury ferry

    There's a ferry?

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  • Stig
    Stig Posts: 29,021
    Keep telling myself that one day I'll use this to go to a Charlton game. Not done it yet though.

    http://www.thurrock.gov.uk/travel/transport/content.php?page=ferry
  • randy andy
    randy andy Posts: 5,454
    yep, The Princess Pocahontas is the ferry, foot passengers only. Runs from the town pier in Gravesend, and there is a bus on the other side (free I think) from Tilbury docks to Tilbury Station/Town Centre

    http://www.visitkent.co.uk/explore/thedms.asp?dms=13&p1=cad&venue=3093850
  • Deadred
    Deadred Posts: 1,514
    Get Nathan to ask one of his mates to give you a lift buck shee.
  • Bexley Dan
    Bexley Dan Posts: 3,658
    I go over to the Basildon area once every couple of weeks for about 9am midweek and find hardly any traffic - i nearly always get there early though as you have to build in some contingency coz when it goes wrong, it can go really wrong. As a result i often find myself killing time in the LIDL/Macdonalds/Tesco triangle in Basildon which, no direspect to Basildon people obviously, must be one of the mongyist places in England.
  • Off_it
    Off_it Posts: 28,845
    Hmmm, thanks all.

    Have now decided to get the train : New Elt > LB > West Ham > Tilbury. At least that way if anything fcuks up I'll be on the right side of the river to get a cab.
  • cs1986
    cs1986 Posts: 1,529
    Off_it said:

    Hmmm, thanks all.

    Have now decided to get the train : New Elt > LB > West Ham > Tilbury. At least that way if anything fcuks up I'll be on the right side of the river to get a cab.

    It will take bout 2 hrs by train trust me it is long I have done it a few times. Driving or bus much beta option.
  • Off_it
    Off_it Posts: 28,845
    Yep, I know. But it's the "safer" option - no room for being late.
  • cs1986
    cs1986 Posts: 1,529
    Plaaayer said:

    cs1986 said:

    Should be ok, I never have trouble on X80 bus 3 days a week, lovely grays in essex.

    I was working in Grays a couple of months ago, I didn't think I could ever see a place that is worse than Woolwich, it was like something out of The Hills Have Eyes!

    Should be raised to the ground.
    Tell me bout it mate am working for thurrock council by grays station. Project managing housing, we are thinking of demolishing most of the housing there!
  • UrbanChupacabra
    UrbanChupacabra Posts: 541
    Do it every morning. Always jump on just before the tolls as sometimes there is traffic for miles
  • SX_Addick
    SX_Addick Posts: 667
    Stig said:

    Keep telling myself that one day I'll use this to go to a Charlton game. Not done it yet though.

    http://www.thurrock.gov.uk/travel/transport/content.php?page=ferry

    Done it a few times. Makes a change. £3 single. £3 return. Bargain.
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  • Deadred
    Deadred Posts: 1,514
    edited November 2012
    Offy drive down to the lower road Erith / Crayford - Bob Dun Way? A206 and join the Dartford Crossing almost at the tunnel mouth and you will be fine; no wind up trust me.
  • MrOneLung
    MrOneLung Posts: 26,849
    Deadred said:

    Offy drive down to the lower road Erith / Crayford - Bob Dun Way? A206 and join the Dartford Crossing almost at the tunnel mouth and you will be fine; no wind up trust me.

    this - you are only about 50 yards from the booths

  • Off_it
    Off_it Posts: 28,845
    My life. Tilbury is ..... er ...... "Earthy" isn't it?!
  • Deadred
    Deadred Posts: 1,514
    Off_it said:

    My life. Tilbury is ..... er ...... "Earthy" isn't it?!


    Dont keep us in suspenders Offy so what route and mode of transport did you use in the end then?
  • Off_it
    Off_it Posts: 28,845
    Thought I said earlier - went by train. It took ages but at least I was the "right" (or do I mean "wrong") side of the river if things started going wrong. Got a lift back. Thought about the ferry, but it was a bit cold!
  • Covered End
    Covered End Posts: 51,990
    What a waste of a thread :-)
  • ads
    ads Posts: 3,224
    Covered End said:

    What a waste of a thread :-)

    its never a waste if trains are debated

  • carly burn
    carly burn Posts: 19,458
    Carnage today.AVOID
  • LenGlover
    LenGlover Posts: 31,651
    Dreadful! M20 f***ed too!
  • eaststandmike
    eaststandmike Posts: 14,956
    My wife has just managed to get down the A2 from Eltham to Bluewater i.e. Kent bound. She said it was slow but moving.

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