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Nah, it's not that bad. I have a love hate relationship with it for sure but I find it can actually be surprisingly quiet heading out of town of a weekday evening, even on a Friday. I've headed out at about 7pm on a Friday night before and it's been super quiet. Sometimes there is actually more traffic coming in than going out: Essex heading out for the evening?
Weekday nights are way better than Saturday afternoons, when it turns into complete gridlock if you're coming back in from Essex.
Later on it's a lot quieter of course. My preferred approach is to go hell for leather down Epping New Road, then keep going hell for leather down Lea Bridge Road flat out until I turn off for Chatsworth Road, getting it over with as quickly as possible.
I see your route goes via Stratford/Bow Road, personally give me Lea Bridge over that any day (also Grove Road is my commute, do not want) but each to their own :)
The traffic has been terrible this week generally for some reason, so maybe that's a factor?
I will get round to joining one of these by the way, I was swimming last night and too tired the time before but I'll try and make the next one.