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Post by WDB on May 26, 2021 8:32:43 GMT
Not a bad maxim — but you’ll need to find a new one when you go electric. 😜
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Post by EspadaIII on May 26, 2021 8:54:46 GMT
We'll need to find another HJ with scare stories about short journeys in electric cars...
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Post by Humph on May 26, 2021 9:05:34 GMT
I suspect my first EV will have two wheels. Not for a while yet though.
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Post by bromptonaut on Jun 17, 2021 7:06:54 GMT
Does Thameslink provide a direct service, or one with a single change at Kings Cross or Farringdon, between Hendon(ish) and Crydon(ish).
A folding bike might link up any gaps?
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Post by EspadaIII on Jun 17, 2021 11:41:50 GMT
I think you have to change at Farringdon. The office he will be working at is directly above the station as near as dammit, so no bikes needed, especially as he hopes to live within a ten minute walk of the Hendon station. If he does, the whole trip should take no more than 1hr 15 minutes door to door. Not too bad for London, but not something I would do here.
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Post by bromptonaut on Jun 18, 2021 13:19:36 GMT
The length (duration) of relatively short 'intra London' commutes never ceases to surprise. By 2010, working in Chancery Lane, I could do door to desk in 90 minutes using car, train and bike. In practice I'd bike across the station car park but only to save a minute or so. When I lived in Belmont (Stanmore) walk to bus, which crawled through the traffic to Harrow Met Station, train to Farringdon and the walk again to Chancery Lane, No 5 then not my later perch at No 81, was more than 90minutes very variable due to the bus.
Latterly, again at 81 Chancery Lane in the 2010 decade, a colleague bussing in from Peckham was taking well over an hour.
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Post by Deleted on Jun 18, 2021 13:24:30 GMT
This is one of the reasons we discounted moving from Reading to a London suburb years ago (before children). It's quicker from Reading to central London than from Teddington/Strawberry Hill, where we were looking to buy.
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Post by WDB on Jun 18, 2021 13:33:21 GMT
Funnily, something similar came up in conversation here yesterday. In my early days with my first employer, I spent a lot of time staying in Wembley. We used to enjoy the occasional evening in central London, but to get there took longer than it did from base in Basingstoke.
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Post by bromptonaut on Jun 18, 2021 13:38:23 GMT
Funnily, something similar came up in conversation here yesterday. In my early days with my first employer, I spent a lot of time staying in Wembley. We used to enjoy the occasional evening in central London, but to get there took longer than it did from base in Basingstoke. I lived in three different shared houses in the Stanmore/Belmont/Kenton orbit then a flat with Mrs B in Bessborough Rd Harrow. The last was five minutes walk from Harrow Met station and I could actually get to work, by then in the Law Courts on the Strand, in under an hour. |
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Post by Deleted on Jun 18, 2021 13:38:59 GMT
In case your lads are interested Dubya, my company has a Summer Job scheme for students this year (over 18s I think but I can check that), working on an IT Security call centre in Bracknell. Let me know if interested.
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Post by WDB on Jun 18, 2021 13:46:44 GMT
Thanks but neither of them has the means to get there from here.
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Post by Humph on Jun 18, 2021 13:47:28 GMT
A lifetime ago, at the beginning of my working life in fact, I was renting a room in a shared flat in Fulham (Harwood Road for anyone who knows the area) and working in a building in Wells St in the West End. One really nice and handy feature of that property, was a private rooftop car park that you accessed by putting your car in a lift. Even then (very early 1980s) it was a good 45 minute drive to and from work. All manner of rat runs were employed to beat the queues.
Very different world back then, the industry was awash with money, and I remember some of the older guys regularly getting through copious amounts of booze with customers at lunchtime, coming back to the office for the afternoon, apparently doing some more work and then driving home. I couldn't have coped with that even then, but it seemed to have been their lifestyle for years.
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