Chauffeur Services in Peterborough

Past Peterborough the A1 keeps switching between motorway and trunk road standard, and you feel the difference. Delays most often start on the Alconbury and Sawtry sections to the south, with Norman Cross junction a bottleneck familiar to anyone who drives it. Stansted normally means dropping south on the A1(M) and crossing on the A14. When that is heavy, the A605 and the villages towards Huntingdon offer a slower but steadier alternative, and on a Friday it is often the one to take.

A show week at the arena and showground on the A15 fills the southern approaches for days on end, and Fletton Parkway around junction 17 takes it squarely. Head east into the Fens and the A47 towards Wisbech turns single carriageway, exposed to the wind and slow behind agricultural vehicles at harvest. One more thing worth knowing if you have a train to catch: the station car parks fill early on a weekday, which is among the better arguments for being set down at the door 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.