Traffic hold-up misery

I travelled from Woking in Surrey to Leeds in Yorkshire to see Leeds United v Hull City in a Championship match. As a Leeds fan the trek to Leeds is about once a season, and a night match seemed an interesting variation.

It's a journey of 212 miles.

We left at 2pm and took our seats at 7.50pm - five minutes AFTER kick-off. That's five hours fifty minutes or 350 minutes. We had a couple of stops, but the journey was slowed down by:

• several miles of roadworks, first on the M25, then on the M1.
• accident south of Sheffield
• queue to get into the car park at Leeds United, mainly caused by more roadworks.

The journey was pretty soul-destroying. 350 minutes looks a fair amount of time for a 212 mile journey, but not so.

Is there anyway you can travel without such hold-ups in Britain these days?