[dboreham]

London buses are really not something you want to try to use. I spent a couple of years working in Chelsea, which was deliberately omitted from the tube system (the rich inhabitants did not want the great unwashed to have an easy way to get there, I suspect). So walking or bus, or if you had more money than I had at the time, taxi was the only option. Walking was far faster than any bus.

[laurencerowe]

Blame Boris for cancelling the extension of the congestion charge to west London. Through central London they're not too bad anymore, at least that was my impression living in London a few years back.

[lmm]

Bikes are faster for those circumstances, though obv. have their downside.