(this post is aimed at those poor folk who have to drive in London)
Yes!
I have it!
After a great deal of thinking time (four and a quarter minutes) I’ve come up with the perfect solution for motoring in London that I shall call The Motorist’s Opportunity to Bite Back.
This is the traffic-jam buster that is also a congestion charge-beater.
Yes indeed my friends, I’m about to reveal how you can legally avoid the congestion charge whilst, at the same time, increasing your journey time.
So how do you poor London-bound folk do it? How can you achieve the seemingly impossible double – improve your journey time in London whilst simultaneously (and legally) avoiding the congestion charge?
Simple.
Get yourself down to your local car auction and…
Buy a cheap minibus.
Why?
Because minibuses are exempt from the congestion charge.
And minibuses can use bus lanes.
At a recent car auction in Berkshire two minibuses were sold for £1,950 and £2,010 respectively.
Both had six months road tax and a full mot.
How much is a year’s worth of congestion-charge exempt, jam-busting bus-lane motoring use worth to you?
For a one-off payment of around £2,000 you get congestion charge exempt travel and faster travel times for a year and you get to own the vehicle and use it in future years too!
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