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@le_car
The fact is that £25 a day if you live in Essex and work in central London with a company car park is still going to be a better deal overall than public transport. Having grown up in France I have to say that the train, bus and subway system in the UK is a massive scandal. Late, slow, dirty, unsafe, and most of all... outrageously expensive.
Having said that I hope the new CC prices will reduce the number of cars in central London... We'll see.
I don't believe in this as an ecological solution though.
Oh and cars are fucking great to travel across Europe or any other country for that matter (apart from the UK, I hate driving here).
Nothing beats a good transalpine road trip for me. In this:
or this:
or that:
maybe this:
or that (although I haven't driven that one):
discuss.