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Roland Perry · March 15th 17, 12:18 PM posted to uk.transport.london

In message , at 11:46:02 on Wed, 15 Mar
2017, d remarked:
What comment were you expecting? A minicab is still a taxi and that car
is still a prius.

A minicab is a private hire vehicle, not a taxi.

Don't split hairs, normal people know them as cabs or taxis.

In a transport group it's important to differentiate between the two,
and not degenerate into the language of "normals".

Whatever. From my house I can be halfway there by car in the time it would
take me to get to St P by foot and tube and buy a ticket.

Perhaps you are in north London then? Hendon to Nottingham is about 2hrs
20mins by car (assuming you don't hit a jam on the way into the City
Centre), so you are 70 minutes from StP. Maybe a car to Luton Parkway,
then catch the train from there?

Or maybe I could just stay in my nice cosy car and carry on past junction 10.
I did on occasion use the MML P&R from ratcliff but the trains were infrequent
and it was about 7 quid return,

Yes, that P&R is virtually useless, in either direction of travel. It
was built 95% for people heading towards London though.

however the tram P&R is good and I'll probably use that again next
time.

The line runs a couple of hundred yards away from my 4th house in the
area.

The centre isn't accessible by private car.

The victoria centre is about 300m from the market square.

Yes, I lived in Nottingham for eight years.

Odd how you forgot about the city's largest shopping centre & car park then.

I didn't forget, you still can't get *to* the centre by car. (Although
there's a couple of places you can kiss-and-ride a bit closer than the
Victoria Centre).

Perhaps you
should do some simple homework before posting.

So should you. You'll walk past a couple of hackney ranks en-route.

Strangely I decided to walk inside the centre, not outside it.

This is like shooting fish in a barrel! One on the left, and two if you
scroll right. Southern entrance in the middle.

https://goo.gl/maps/bJknkn3ETVU2

Three, ranking right outside the Victoria centre. ObRail, on the site of
the old Victoria Station.

https://goo.gl/maps/259NxYYPXBE2

Wow, 2 taxis. Its almost like oxford street.

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Roland Perry