Reply to: How do you overcome the "road-rail impedance mismatch" problem?

[NickFitz]

thinking of ditching the tube for the boris bikes but haven't tried that yet.

Working in Clerkenwell last year I was rather amused one morning to see a chap riding a Boris bike to the stands by the Betsy Trotwood only to find they were all occupied. He clearly didn't have any idea where the nearest alternative might be and, after standing there in slack jawed confusion for a few moments, headed off down Farringdon Road peering anxiously up side roads

[yetanotherbob]

I love my commute, a 5 mile bike ride through fields is the best part of it, then a main line train ride into central london, then the tube. thinking of ditching the tube for the boris bikes but haven't tried that yet.

[Doggy Styles]

Space hooper to the station. It's more dignified than you think.

[adubya]

Folding cycle.

[MrMark]

Well, if it's the cost that is hurting you, and if you're west of London, you could drive and park on the Oxford park n' ride, and catch the coach into London (one every 10 or 15 minutes). Fairly cheap - only drawback I suppose is that you need to catch an early coach to avoid slow traffic, and it takes you into west London (Notting Hill, Baker Street, Marble Arch), so not too convenient for the city or Docklands.
If not the cost, move abroad and get a flight into London City airport!

[KentPhilip]

option 3 but try checking the train time table before you leave the house

too much forward planning required; I'm a man of impulse and error.

[Spacecadet]

option 3 but try checking the train time table before you leave the house

[Old Greg]

And I paid very little money to live under spaghetti junction bridge under M6.

sasguru

How sweet! He's finally moved in with you.

[doodab]

Don't you bill the client for the taxi to the station?

[AtW]

And I paid very little money to live under spaghetti junction bridge under M6.

sasguru

[eek]

I paid a lot of money to get a house 400 yards from a station, 1 mile to a motorway intersection and a 15 minute train ride to an airport and ten minutes into the countryside. Location, location location

I paid sod all for a house a £3 taxi to the station, 1 mile from a motorway junction and £15 away from an airport.

unfortunately unless I want to go to Aberdeen or Amsterdam the airport is useless.

As for the train fare to London doesn't quite describe the must go now fare.

[Paddy]

I paid a lot of money to get a house 400 yards from a station, 1 mile to a motorway intersection and a 15 minute train ride to an airport and ten minutes into the countryside. Location, location location

[swamp]

Driving to London can often be cheaper than taking the train. There are a number of car parks on the edge of the CC zone, from where you can walk to your destination or take public transport/taxi, just as you would from a mainline station.

[KentPhilip]

Ask your cleaner to give you a lift.

She doesn't drive.
But that would be a way for her to repay the sexual favours I give her

[AtW]

5. Get the bird to drive you to the station: Great, but you get a bellyful of earache!

Ask your cleaner to give you a lift.