Driving in London - advice please

London is not a car friendly place. They want you to pay money just to drive on their streets. I avoid the place. Don't like being ripped off !!

K

London is not a car friendly place. They want you to pay money just to drive on their streets. I avoid the place. Don't like being ripped off !!

K

...It will not be long before it spreads to other parts of UK,as it has proved successfull in London and several other cities on mainland europe,and is an easy money earner,but does it affect OH and I not one jot at our age 

Other than the rip-off congestion charges, why do people feel worried about driving in London?

Yes, there are a lot of inexperienced drivers on the roads there (because they have so much public transport) but surely, if you have a full driving license, you should be able to drive anywhere in tbe UK with confidence?

Quite right really IanH just that I hadn't done it for years and no idea about the regulations!  I don't know why I was so intimidated!  Although living in the country as I do traffic lights are a novelty!  Just shows one should keep ones hand in!

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It's so easy driving in London. You can't have an accident whilst sitting still can you??? It takes me as long to drive from Birmingham to Londan as it does to get across the city to Guys Hospital (unless I'm on blues and twos)

My brother in law lives in a town north of London and his wife is from  a town south of London.When they go to visit/look after her elderly parents it can take  so long in the car that they have now resorted to leaving a car at the in laws house and taking the train to her parents' town.Yet he says that he prefers the "buzz" of living down south after forty plus years of living and working "down south".It would send me bonkers but each to their own!

By "buzz" does he mean the constant drone of traffic?

Because otherwise, to me, it's just a series of scruffy, dirty, interconnected towns.......

My elder daughter lives in Putney, which is as close in as I go. Driving in London is, however, covered by the bit from the Apostles Creed in the Book of Common Prayer - "the quick and the dead".