Chauffeur Services in St Albans

Where the motorway, the M1 link and the A414 all converge at London Colney, you get junction 21A of the M25, and through it goes everything heading south and west. Few stretches of the whole orbital carry a heavier load than that interchange and the run along to junction 21, and westbound between seven and nine is the worst of it. Heathrow gets a generous allowance built in as a result. For London we frequently avoid the thing altogether, taking the A1081 through Radlett to pick up the A1: slower on paper, calmer in practice.

Wednesday and Saturday are market days, which shuts St Peters Street to traffic, fills the car parks from mid-morning and slows the roads around the cathedral on both. The other predictable pinch is a term-time morning near the schools on the Harpenden and Hatfield roads. Bound for Luton, you can have the pretty route, the A1081 through Harpenden, or the quicker one, the M1 from junction 7, whenever the motorway is clear. Your chauffeur makes that call on the morning itself.

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.