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1. They certainly looked good still in their wedding clothes driving off in it. But they are out of reach of most people due to the price of them

   Comment by liz | April 30, 2011 | Reply

2. A policeman friend of mine, who incidentally was an usher at our wedding, once picked up a DB6 for a few hundred pounds, because a criminal couldn’t pay a fine. So it was sell his Aston there and then or go to jail. My friend was the only guy around with enough mony in his bank account.

   Comment by AnonW | April 30, 2011 | Reply

3. I thought they were trying to give a “green” message with trees in the Abbey. Aston Martin DB6s do 13 miles to the gallon!

   Comment by John | April 30, 2011 | Reply

   • They only did a couple of miles! Supposedly it runs on biofuel. But I’m really not in favour of that!

     Comment by AnonW | May 1, 2011 | Reply

4. If the govt want to encourage us to drive green cars they need to do something about the price of them! I drive a Honda Jazz, which I love, and I would have the hybrid if it wasnt for the price! I dont do the mileage to make it worth my while

   Comment by liz | April 30, 2011 | Reply

   • I understand your position. I don’t really need a car anymore.

     Comment by AnonW | May 1, 2011 | Reply

5. I do need one, or else I would need taxis, because the places I go are not always on bus routes, even assuming I could manage some of the bumpy old buses we have up here. I couldnt use my scooter to go to places like the Trafford Centre

   Comment by liz | May 1, 2011 | Reply

6. I would have more difficulty managing outside London.

   I can walk distances of perhaps two kilometres or so, but not with say a couple of days shopping. But I can manage that easily on the bus, which of course being centre exit makes it so much easier. I usually do heavy shopping at a quiet time and then I can get two seats by the centre door. When the stop is announced, I get ready to move and signal the bus to stop and then just walk off when the door opens. All buses should be centre exit and have a wheelchair ramp under that door.

   I’ve used very few taxis since I’ve moved, but they are certainly cheaper here, than they were in Cambridge.

   If I want to do furniture shopping or something like that, it’s just a bus to IKEA or John Lewis. And the Eastfield Shopping Centre opens in September at Stratford, which is only a couple of stops on the train. If I used a wheelchair, it would be level access all the way with large lifts at the stations.

   I think the problem with the North is there is this attitude that if you don’t drive you’re somewhat unusual. Some of the football grounds I’ve visited don’t even have instructions on their web sites about how to get there by public transport. They assume you come by car or an organised coach. Most clubs in London and the South East assume that you live close or will use public transport.

   Whether we like it or not, if we want to use a car, we’re going to have to pay a lot more for the privilege.

   Comment by AnonW | May 1, 2011 | Reply

7. People up here would say that people down south dont learn to drive and so have to be collected for various journeys to places outside of outer London, plus if you are going somewhere as a group there may be only one driver, causing problems if there are six of you. My daughter lives south of London in commuterville, she has to drive for her job, but it can be frustrating when she has to get half a dozen or so people and luggage to a field in the middle of Somerset miles from any form of public transport.

   Comment by liz | May 1, 2011 | Reply

8. More and more of my London friends are giving up on driving. Quite a few are putting the car in the garage and only using it for trips out of London.

   One phenomenon, I notice here is that an awful lot of kids seem to be walked or cycled to the school down the road about 200 metres from me. You’re also starting to see the odd Dutch bike with a wooden box for the kids.

   You also get fathers walking their twenty-something daughters to the bus stop in the evening. Not that there’s been any attacks, it’s just politeness.

   We also felt that we’d be rather flooded with cars in the Royal Wedding, as we’re quite close to lots of buses to Central London and the Victoria line and the parking is free on weekends and Bank Holidays. But it was just a normal weekend day. The only excitement was a good crowd in all of the pubs within walking distance.

   Comment by AnonW | May 1, 2011 | Reply

9. When we have visited London, we have driven down, but only used the car if we were leaving the city – we spent a week when the children were younger, and the car went into the hotel underground park, and we only used it when we went to Legoland. When I was a child we spent a week in London every summer with family, and again we only used it if we went to visit relatives further afield.

   Comment by liz | May 1, 2011 | Reply

10. […] after some of the comments with regard to public transport in the Aston Martin post, I thought I’d look up the […]

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