{"id":335,"date":"2007-12-25T23:20:48","date_gmt":"2007-12-25T22:20:48","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/brennigjones.com\/blog\/?p=335"},"modified":"2012-05-03T09:37:28","modified_gmt":"2012-05-03T08:37:28","slug":"keep-driving","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/brennigjones.com\/blog\/?p=335","title":{"rendered":"Keep Driving"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><em>(this post is aimed at those poor folk who have to drive in London)<\/em><\/p>\n<p>Yes!<\/p>\n<p>I have it!<\/p>\n<p>After a great deal of thinking time (four and a quarter minutes) I&#8217;ve come up with the perfect solution for motoring in London that I shall call The Motorist&#8217;s Opportunity to Bite Back.<\/p>\n<p>This is the traffic-jam buster that is also a congestion charge-beater.<\/p>\n<p>Yes indeed my friends, I&#8217;m about to reveal how you can legally avoid the congestion charge whilst, at the same time, increasing your journey time.<\/p>\n<p>So how do you poor London-bound folk do it? How can you achieve the seemingly impossible double &#8211; improve your journey time in London whilst simultaneously (and legally) avoiding the congestion charge?<\/p>\n<p>Simple.<\/p>\n<p>Get yourself down to your local car auction and&#8230;<\/p>\n<p>Buy a cheap minibus.<\/p>\n<p>Why?<\/p>\n<p>Because minibuses are exempt from the congestion charge.<\/p>\n<p>And minibuses can use bus lanes.<\/p>\n<p>At a recent car auction in Berkshire two minibuses were sold for \u00a31,950 and \u00a32,010 respectively.<\/p>\n<p>Both had six months road tax and a full mot.<\/p>\n<p>How much is a year&#8217;s worth of congestion-charge exempt, jam-busting bus-lane motoring use worth to you?<\/p>\n<p>For a one-off payment of around \u00a32,000 you get congestion charge exempt travel and faster travel times for a year <em>and<\/em> you get to own the vehicle and use it in future years too!<\/p>\n<p><strong><em>B<\/em><\/strong>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>(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<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":13,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-335","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-stuff","two-columns"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/brennigjones.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/335","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/brennigjones.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/brennigjones.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brennigjones.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/13"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brennigjones.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=335"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/brennigjones.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/335\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/brennigjones.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=335"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brennigjones.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=335"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brennigjones.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=335"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}