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If that was the case why does the traffic everywhere seem to decrease? The parents who would've dropped kids off in the car start using Tube? Unlikely..
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If that was the case why does the traffic everywhere seem to decrease? The parents who would've dropped kids off in the car start using Tube? Unlikely..
That's the point; when Tilly and Tarquin are on their holidays the entire family goes away.
Around me in SW15 it's eerily empty. All of the residential streets nearby suddenly have loads of empty parking spaces. It's as if 3/4 of the cars have gone.
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I'd say the majority aren't driving their kids to school. The majority just happen to be parents who, for some bizarre reason, drive their 4x4s to work in London; dropping the kids off on the way is incidental for the minority.
It's just when the kids are off school they all swan off (en masse) to Meribel / Sharm El Sheikh / Rock / etc, so they don't need to be commuting any more.
If we're going full stereotype then most of the children will be driven to school by the nanny in the family runaround (a Mini Cooper Countryman).