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Nope. It’s pretty hardcore but also a bit necessary as congestion/pollution is mental enough, let alone actual parking spaces. It’s always a nice surprise visiting other parts of the country and you can pretty much park wherever you want and not spending 45 minutes going 200m down Romford road.
Basically, cars in London are just a massive pain in the arse. I managed to not need one for the first 30+ years of my life here but had a kid and suddenly doing anything outside ever became tricky without one.
Well_is_it-
Sounds like a nightmare. Where I am we have minor issues with parking. Most houses have three cars and a lot have only parking for two in the drives. Honestly, we couldn’t survive with one car though. Children who turn into adults get cars and that adds to the number. One house round the corner has six cars - big family and they paved their front garden for parking.
London has public transport and that’s what we lack and I’m an shift worker so even if there was transport, it likely wouldn’t work for me.
Thanks for the info - it is rather interesting (to me). Have a great evening. -
Last time I checked in Waltham Forest you could get a resident's permit for 2nd car but it was much more expensive than the first car. Or maybe that was before they changed it to emissions based.
Is it one per person now? I guess as our car is registered to mrs, I could get another one if needed?
Hoping to avoid 2nd car but occasionally get tempted by an interesting thing or electric.
TGR
ChasnotRobert
Thanks. Obviously I’m not London based. Can you pay for an additional vehicle?