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[OldCow1]

Got caught out. Had no idea was in the zone. Bought my diesel car because thought it was greener at the time. Just so upset. Trains were on strike. Never drive near London otherwise. Got fine letter late (royal mail strikes maybe?) I'm on about 2p above minimum wage. This just feels shit. £160 fine for one screw up. Off you go trolls

Where I live, having a diesel car is frowned on but bonfires and fire pits are all the rage. They must be generating a non-respiratory-system-damaging type of particulant.... Go figure.

Cycle lol I've got arthritis ...and I'm not sure how you do a school run with 2 year old twins and a third on a bike if I could manage the hill.
No they can't afford to pay they have 3 children including twins in a 2 bed bungalow and are scraping by

Jannier, don't lots of parents in london live within walking distance of their kids school?

Not necessarily in outer London, no.
People have visited the Houses of Parliament and jumped on a tube and assume the whole of London is the same.

Most of southern outer London is nowhere near a tube station. Our buses have been cut and trains have never returned to pre-pandemic service. Although trains in the suburbs have barely existed this year due to strikes.

If not walking distance then maybe cycle distance?

Possibly, but not really safe for many, especially younger children. It's also difficult to transport school bag, PE kit, food tech ingredients and a musical instrument by bike for older kids.

It can be very difficult driving an unfamiliar road with unfamiliar signage actually. Not the same thing, but I once ended up in a lane for cars with more than one occupant in an unfamiliar city. I had no idea what the pictogram they'd helpfully used meant.

Seeline - there are some great baskets for bikes that can fit all those things in