[Sc0b0]

Hi
We've got to travel up from Southampton to Harrogate for a wedding in June and it's going to have to be on a Friday. My first thought was to get the kids off school for the afternoon and start at about 1.30. However, my wife reckons we'd be better off waiting until about 7pm when there's no traffic. Our normal time for this journey is 4 and a half to 5 hours so she reckons we'll be there before midnight.
My question is this: does the traffic on a Friday actually die down after 7pm or are we going to be getting up there well after midnight with some very miserable kids and a very bad-tempered sister waiting to let us in to her house!
Many thanks
Al

[smudger]

Welcome to the site Sc0b0, well in my experience the rush hour traffic starts earlier on Friday afternoons, at least it does up here in Fife.

The main bottleneck here being the Forth Bridge, and it stays busy from around 13.00 right through until around 19.00, good luck;)

[Sc0b0]

Thanks, Smudger. That's useful.

[Rolebama]

I would be inclined to go for leaving at 1.30. Although the traffic congestion may well be clear for your leaving at 7, it seems there are delays caused by collisions almost every Friday nowadays.

[Sc0b0]

Thanks, Rolebama.