AstraVanMan wrote:

Was travelling from the West End (Wardour Street) to Clacton-on-sea this
afternoon - definitely planned to use the M11/M25 option rather than crawl
up the A12 and its 20 or so sets of traffic lights, but debated whether to
go A400/A503 (then either A1055, or through Higham Hill, to get to the NCR,
or just A503 all the way up to Waterworks Corner) or Shaftesbury
Ave/Theobalds Rd etc. etc. up to Old Street, then through Hackney, and up to
the A12 at Hackney Wick.

Chose the route through Camden, left Wardour Street at 4:05pm, got to the
arches near Finsbury Park stations at 4:30pm, then took me another hour to
get up to Tottenham Hale, and eventually got on the M11 at 6:05pm. Seven
Sisters Road was absolutely jammed solid all the way. Is it seriously that
bad regularly, or did something happen around the vague vicinity of that
area to completely screw up all the traffic?

I lived on Seven Sisters Road round Finsbury Park for four years. It's
often truly awful there. I was on a bus for over an hour from there to
Manor House once.

That was, to be fair though, an extreme case. Yours may have been
extreme too today. But, yes, it is never good up there.

Dave