Driving into RIAT 2025

[Duckpond]

What is the latest point where you can join the red route in? Off the A40 at Burford, or can you join further down the A361? Maybe from the A417 joining at Lechlade?

[iainpeden]

It used to be possible to use the backroads into Fairford but tended to involve ordnance survey maps and a compass.
Sort of depends where you are coming from to start with

[microlight]

Be warned Android Auto can take you down some incredibly narrow single track roads to join the red route ....not for the feint hearted. Happened to me 2 years in a row

[Duckpond]

It's just that we'll be coming from Abingdon, so driving all the way up to the A40 and Burford is a long way round. I don't think the blue route would be any better for us.

[Brevet Cable]

Assuming you're referring to the one-way system on the weekend, unless I'm mistaken the changeover time ( from in to out ) is supposed to be at around 14:00hrs

[tankbuster]

It's just that we'll be coming from Abingdon, so driving all the way up to the A40 and Burford is a long way round. I don't think the blue route would be any better for us.

If you are coming from Abingdon then all instructions will point you to the blue route and it works. Heading for Burford you can tie yourself in knots because all the routes are pretty well so fixed you will get into much more of a mess trying to work outside the system rather than with it.

[Duckpond]

Thanks Tankbuster. Will use blue route. Do you know if I can join it from the A420 at the top of Swindon, or will I need to go down to the M4? Cheers from the Duckpond.

[aviodromefriend]

What is possible is also dependable on what time of the day you go there. Is it at silly o'clock as most enthousiasts want to do, much more is possible than when the general public (after having enjoyed their full english breakfast before setting off) arrives.

Having stayed at a hotel in Abingdon the last few years before the Cottesmore break, it wasn't a problem for our coach to reach Lechlade, while having passed RAF Brize Norton on its way, so I think it joined the A361 very close to Lechlade (just checking the geography of the different places on Google Earth while typing). If you arrive when the traffic jam already stretches further away than Lechlade, things might be different.

Going for the blue route from Abingdon doesn't seem to make sense, as it is a much longer way in, and I wouldn't be surprised if blue gets more traffic than the others, due to it coming from a mayor motorway from London.

[Duckpond]

We're going on Sunday, so I'll be staring at Google maps traffic most of Saturday morning.

[iainpeden]

Saturday tends to be busier. This year from cirencester leaving at 8 am.
Friday 20 minutes to green car park
Saturday 65 minutes
Sunday 35 minutes

[capercaillie]

Is this Chris Rea's comeback single, or should that be Chris Reat?

[Mortimus]

Saturday tends to be busier. This year from cirencester leaving at 8 am.
Friday 20 minutes to green car park
Saturday 65 minutes
Sunday 35 minutes

It really does highlight the benefit of arriving early. From where I turned off the A419 at Cirencester at around 7am to being parked up in the green car park was no more than 15-20 minutes on Saturday this year.