Chauffeur Services in Bolton

Short, useful, and busy at both ends: that is the M61. Between half past seven and nine, junction 3 at Kearsley and the merge into the M60 near Worsley both slow, and the southbound run joins a length of M60 that is rarely quick. Our preference for the airport is anticlockwise towards junction 5 rather than the clockwise side, and the Barton and Trafford stretches get checked before we set off, since either can put twenty minutes onto a run.

Retail weekends at Middlebrook run nearly as heavy as event days there, and both throw a great deal of traffic onto Chorley New Road and the roundabouts around Lostock for an hour or two either side. That site sits out at Horwich, by junction 6 of the M61. Higher up, above the town, Belmont and Rivington give lovely roads in summer and treacherous ones in a January freeze, ice sitting long after the valley has thawed, which is when the A666 or the motorway gets our vote instead.

On a long journey, Britain's weather does more damage than its traffic ever will. Winter afternoons close in early, and that matters a great deal when the final leg is a single-track road. Highland and moorland routes can run substantially longer than any summer estimate suggests. Those allowances go into the timings from the start, rather than being discovered together halfway up a glen. Where a departure hour makes the schedule uncomfortable, we propose a better one.

Demand tracks the calendar closely. Bank holiday weekends fill fast, so do the weeks either side of Christmas, the summer wedding season and those university terms that all begin and end together. The further from London a journey runs, the sooner a car wants committing to it. Midweek travel in the shoulder months, by contrast, is the easiest thing in the world to arrange.