{"id":319,"date":"2008-08-30T16:05:11","date_gmt":"2008-08-30T14:05:11","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.ofcourseimright.com\/?p=319"},"modified":"2008-08-29T11:34:51","modified_gmt":"2008-08-29T09:34:51","slug":"how-to-get-around-london-in-style-and-speed","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/ofcourseimright.com\/?p=319","title":{"rendered":"How to get around London in Style and Speed"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Depending on who you believe (see <a href=\"http:\/\/www.bikeforall.net\/news.php?articleshow=229\">here<\/a>, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.roadtransport.com\/blogs\/2007\/10\/average-speed-in-london-is-12mph-but-at-least-you-will-not-be-fined.html\">here<\/a>, and <a href=\"http:\/\/cycling-london.blogspot.com\/2006\/04\/cycle-mph-average-speed-in-london.html\">here<\/a>), the average driving speed in London is between 6 and 12 mph, using surface transportation, and about 20 mph <a href=\"http:\/\/www.tfl.gov.uk\/corporate\/modesoftransport\/londonunderground\/1608.aspx\">below ground<\/a>.\u00a0 You might think that the best way to speed things up would be to take a helicopter, but one limousine company can offer you a way to get there fast.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone\" title=\"A Fire Engine Limosine\" src=\"http:\/\/www.stretchlimos.co.uk\/FireEn1.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"176\" height=\"143\" \/><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone\" style=\"border: 0pt none; margin-left: 20px; margin-right: 20px;\" title=\"Fire Engine Limo Inside\" src=\"http:\/\/www.stretchlimos.co.uk\/FireEn3.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"171\" height=\"139\" \/><\/p>\n<p>That&#8217;s right.\u00a0 A fire engine limosine, courtesy of <a href=\"http:\/\/www.stretchlimos.co.uk\/FireEngineLimousineHire.htm\">stretchlimos.co.uk<\/a>.\u00a0 Here&#8217;s the real question.\u00a0 Can you get them to use the sirens?\u00a0 Yes, with a pang of guilt that you too could contribute to someone not believing that in fact that fire engine behind behind them is saving lives, speeding through the streets of london, in an imposing fraud, perhaps sirens a&#8217;blazen.\u00a0 Or, perhaps you can roll up to <a href=\"http:\/\/www.royal.gov.uk\/output\/Page555.asp\">The Old Lady&#8217;s house<\/a> in search of some traces of smoke.\u00a0 Who knows?\u00a0 Maybe the Queen herself could find it faster to get around town than that old horse and carriage.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Depending on who you believe (see here, here, and here), the average driving speed in London is between 6 and 12 mph, using surface transportation, and about 20 mph below ground.\u00a0 You might think that the best way to speed things up would be to take a helicopter, but one limousine company can offer you &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/ofcourseimright.com\/?p=319\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;How to get around London in Style and Speed&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[15],"tags":[148,149,112,150],"class_list":["post-319","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-stupid-stuff","tag-gas-guzzler","tag-london","tag-silly","tag-transport"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/ofcourseimright.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/319","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/ofcourseimright.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/ofcourseimright.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ofcourseimright.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ofcourseimright.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=319"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/ofcourseimright.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/319\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":335,"href":"https:\/\/ofcourseimright.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/319\/revisions\/335"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/ofcourseimright.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=319"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ofcourseimright.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=319"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ofcourseimright.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=319"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}