Received and printing, thanks. Not looking forward to it, mind - but I had the meeting planning landed on me at the last minute, so I'm going to have to be there for 8.30am at the latest anyway, which should avoid the worst of the traffic.
If he's got to be there for 8:30, he'll have to be parked up well before then, so he won't be in the traffic at that time. You'd certainly miss the *worst* of it in Newcastle.
Odd, as you'd expect people would be trying to get away from there... Anyway, Newcastle's way down in size compared to Brum or London, so it's probably not a good example.