>>>> I would suggest that you'd be insane to try to travel around central 
>>>> London by car. It's not that public transport is superb - it isn't - 
>>>
>>> The subway takes you where you need to go. I've been all over london.
>>
>> Tried leaving the West End on a Saturday night just after all the 
>> shows finish? 
> 
> Well, sure. But that's going to be congested regardless of your mode of 
> transport. Heck, I've been to places that when the show let out, it was 
> too crowded to *walk* for 15 minutes or more.

Every year, MK holds a public demonstration of how awesome our road 
network is. On the Saturday after the 5th of November, there's a huge 
public firework display (with free entraince - not that you can really 
stop people watching something that takes up the entire sky...) A 
singificant fraction of the entire populus of the city is concentrated 
at a single point in space. When the last firework explodes, the entire 
assemblage all try to leave simultanously.

Once you get more than a quarter of a mile from the car park, you'd 
never know anything had happened. The traffic disperces *that* efficiently.

(Of course, it'll take you 20 minutes to get your car out of the car 
park. And it'll take 30 minutes for you plus a few thousand other people 
to shuffle across the three *tiny* bridges connecting Campbell Park to 
the rest of the city...)

In London, when it's busy, it's busy *everywhere*, and no matter where 
you go, no matter which route you take, it's *all* gridlocked. 
Admittedly London is much bigger and far more populated than MK, not 
even so...

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