My Octavia 230 has the Admunson Sat Nav unit fitted.

 

Been in London for a while this week and a cuople of times we were caught up in heavy/sytanding traffic and yesterday got caught out on the M25 stuck in 6 miles of very slow moving traffic trying to travel North bound into the Dartford Crossing.

 

The Sat nav made no warnings of the Queue of standing/slow moving traffic. " Does the unit have a alternative Re-route option or warning ot traffic ahead  " I've searched the Manual but it's a bit confusing. Also, there is no split screen for complicated junctions on the screen, Should there be ?

 

Any help would be appreciated please

 

Thanks

Edited 27 October, 20178 yr by Auric Goldfinger

Unfortunately that would still have been the quickest route, so it may not have been a problem with the traffic on the sat nav.

The Dartford crossing is always like that on an afternoon, in fact it has got worse since they took away the toll booths and made it online pay to supposedly make it flow quicker.

Your only other options would have been the A2 to the  Blackwall tunnel (a slight detour, but you would end up at the start of the M11 and go past the olympic park), or go further into London just before the Blackwall tunnel and use either the Rotherhithe tunnel (just don't) or Tower bridge (easy to end up in congestion charge).

The only further option would be to go the other way around the M25, but that is a whole lot of pain.

My depot is 5 mins from junction 29, and when I first started going out with SWMBO she lived in Devon.  On a friday when I was going down there, It was over an hour quicker for me to go north around the M25 to get to the M3 or M4 than it was to go south.

Thanks Roo, I / we were stopping in the SE9 Area visiting my Son and not knowing London well I stuck to Sat Nav routing.

 

I had thought about the Blachwall tunnel but I was once caught up one aftenoon on the route you suggested but it was worse than yesterday.

 

Perhaps avoid London at all costs ( or go by train )

 

Thanks

The blackwall tunnel is just as bad, as people see the M25 and go that way instead, I've done it myself recently thinking it would be quicker, but it took twice as long overall than just sitting on the m25.

The Blackwall Tunnel has been terrible for traffic for as long as I can remember.  In the early 1990's I lived in Bow and I walked along the now A12 to my school in Poplar, and even then the tailbacks were miles long in the morning.

Just as bad, nearly 2 years later.  Down to south-east London from Cambridge yesterday (Wednesday) to visit a sick relative. Easy fast drive south, over the Q.E. bridge just before noon. However, on rejoining M25 off the A20 Swanley Bypass at junction 3 in mid-afternoon I was dismayed to see stationary HGVs as I came up the slip road. A lorry driver let me in, but it still took about an hour and a half to creep the 4 miles to the northbound tunnel. No obvious reason for the traffic jam, except for the volume of traffic trying to filter in at the other junctions. It's my impression that, measured as square metres of road space occupied, well over half was HGVs and 'white vans'.  Whenever we were above a junction roundabout and could look down, it seemed as though most of the local roads were pretty solid with semi-stationary HGVs.