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Originally Posted by Geraint Owen
What is the latest thinking of whether to go via Brussels or Lille?
I read a thread on here years ago that went on for pages and pages. Just wondering whether Brussels is still solid on a typical thursday at 2-3pm?
Went Lille route three years ago. It was fine but seemed a really noisy drive with a lot of concrete road surface....although that mattered less when we blew a sparkplug out of the motorhome, disconnected the injector for that cylinder and carried on on 9 cylinders. Then it was loud!!!
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I go via Brussels every trip in an HGV and 9 times out of ten traffic is 'fluide'. If it's raining there will surely be fender benders that slow things down, and if you hit the RO during rush hour it will definitely be busy. Middle of day or early hours best. By 3pm could be getting busy again..... Sunday eve coming home usually OK as well.
There are 2 road works on the E40 west of Brussels in Ghent region that slow you down a little bit as well. They were just lane width restrictions with speed limit. Looking at live traffic at moment seem to be same. There were also road works between Calais and Dunkirk on the A16 in the summer but they have finished for the moment. The bridge works of the last few years between Spa and Brussels are all done, thank goodness.....
