I'm still not entirely sure what you're shaking your head at, but from the snark about parking and the comment about how your virtuous friends take the train, it sounds like you're criticising me for driving.
FWIW, I'm borrowing a friend's car, & it's only the second time in about 6 years that I've used a car. In an ideal world I'd take the train for this journey. In an ideal world the train wouldn't cost twice as much and take more than twice as long as the car (making it difficult to do in a day trip); but then, in an ideal world, things wouldn't be set up to privilege the selfish & screw everybody else.
We're not going to be buying the bike on the spot and bringing it back (it wouldn't fit in the car anyway!), but carrying a baby and a large moses basket with a non-collapsible stand (which we're delivering to rmc28) on the train and across London on the tube would be pretty difficult. Perhaps I should have asked your virtuous friends to cycle from Oxford to Cambridge with it, and us, on their tandem.
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Date: 2012-01-27 09:22 am (UTC)FWIW, I'm borrowing a friend's car, & it's only the second time in about 6 years that I've used a car. In an ideal world I'd take the train for this journey. In an ideal world the train wouldn't cost twice as much and take more than twice as long as the car (making it difficult to do in a day trip); but then, in an ideal world, things wouldn't be set up to privilege the selfish & screw everybody else.
We're not going to be buying the bike on the spot and bringing it back (it wouldn't fit in the car anyway!), but carrying a baby and a large moses basket with a non-collapsible stand (which we're delivering to