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I want to get up to Waltham Abbey from SE London. Early Saturday morning (before 8am) so traffic should be comparatively light.
I don't particularly want to do lots and lots of towpath. We did quite a bit of entering London from Cambridge on the FNRttC last year and it was a bit of a slog. However, I don't really mind it that much, especially if it means not getting killed to death. I'll be on 25mm Durano Plus which can manage a little bit of crappy surface.
I'm thinking I'll take the Greenwich Foot Tunnel, then up the Eastern side of the Isle of Dogs (A1206) then somehow get to Stratford: Possibly cross the A1261/Aspen Way at the massive roundabout at the top of the Isle of Dogs. Maybe cross the A12 at the big roundabout with the A118. However, I think that's the Bow Interchange which means Certain Death. Then to Stratford (is this CS2?)
North of Stratford doesn't look too bad. A112 to Leyton, sort of wiggle up to Chingford, home of Norman Tebbit, then a little bit more A112.
Any advice? Feel free to dismiss my route ideas above as rubbish, I only know the area from driving up the A12, which means I don't know it at all.
I don't particularly want to do lots and lots of towpath. We did quite a bit of entering London from Cambridge on the FNRttC last year and it was a bit of a slog. However, I don't really mind it that much, especially if it means not getting killed to death. I'll be on 25mm Durano Plus which can manage a little bit of crappy surface.
I'm thinking I'll take the Greenwich Foot Tunnel, then up the Eastern side of the Isle of Dogs (A1206) then somehow get to Stratford: Possibly cross the A1261/Aspen Way at the massive roundabout at the top of the Isle of Dogs. Maybe cross the A12 at the big roundabout with the A118. However, I think that's the Bow Interchange which means Certain Death. Then to Stratford (is this CS2?)
North of Stratford doesn't look too bad. A112 to Leyton, sort of wiggle up to Chingford, home of Norman Tebbit, then a little bit more A112.
Any advice? Feel free to dismiss my route ideas above as rubbish, I only know the area from driving up the A12, which means I don't know it at all.