Chauffeur Hire in the City of London

The City is one square mile with an authority of its own, a police force of its own, and a working population many times the size of its residential one. Bank sits at the middle, Cornhill, Threadneedle Street and Lombard Street radiating out from it; Leadenhall Street and Fenchurch Street head east towards Aldgate; St Paul's and the Barbican hold the western and northern edges. Nearly everybody we carry is working: a client meeting, a closing dinner, a car to the airport when a long day finally ends.

Through weekday daytime hours Bank junction is shut to most traffic, while Bishopsgate carries restrictions that trip up any driver who does not work here week in, week out. Twenty miles an hour applies right across the City, and its security cordon leaves several approaches one way or watched by camera. Stopping on Cheapside, Gracechurch Street and Fenchurch Street is difficult, so we use the quieter turnings behind them. The City sits inside the congestion charge zone, and we arrange the charge.

Everything runs to the working day here, and it is the edges of that day which get busy. An early collection from home for breakfast in EC2; a transfer between offices when a meeting overruns and the walk is too far in the rain; the evening run home, or on to dinner in the West End. Client travel is the other constant: meeting a visiting delegation off a flight at Heathrow or London City, taking them to their hotel, then to the office at eight the next morning.

Head east and London City Airport takes 25 to 45 minutes as a rule, which is why it is the natural pick from EC3. Put Heathrow at 55 to 90 minutes, and attempt it before half past six or leave it until after ten in the morning. Up the M11, Stansted works out at 55 to 85 minutes; Luton at 50 to 85 by way of the A1 or M1; Gatwick at 60 to 100. Anyone bound for the eastern counties has Liverpool Street and Fenchurch Street stations minutes away.