| Comment | I commute to Edinburgh once a week for work from North West Glasgow.
I usually leave the house about 6:15am; at that time in the morning I'm about an hour to Hermiston Gait by car. I start at 8am though, any later and I don't have much of a margin for anything going wrong on my commute (there was one morning in winter I think I literally just missed an accident around Harthill, I remember thinking it was weird that traffic just seemed to disappear from my rearview mirror and other colleagues who were coming in from the West were quite late.)
Even at that time in the morning the M8 gets quite congested once you're down to 2 lanes at Newhouse. It's not normally static, but definitely congested and you're usually lucky to get above 50.
It's worse coming home, you get the start of rush hour traffic with people commuting back to the likes of Livingston and Bathgate from Edinburgh and then I'm normally slamming into the Glasgow M8 rush hour about 5pm. The A725 turnoff usually looks pretty congested around that time as well (although I have no idea what it's actually like once you merge onto the dual carriageway, it might just be the usual brief congestion you get when 2 roads merge like at the M9 junction in Edinburgh.) |
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