Chauffeur Hire in the City of London

The City is a single square mile with its own authority, its own police force and a working population many times its residential one. Bank sits at the centre with Cornhill, Threadneedle Street and Lombard Street radiating from it; Leadenhall Street and Fenchurch Street run east towards Aldgate; St Paul's and the Barbican hold the western and northern edges. Almost everyone we carry here is working — a client meeting, a closing dinner, a car to the airport at the end of a long day.

Bank junction is closed to most traffic during weekday daytime hours, and Bishopsgate carries restrictions that catch out drivers who do not work here regularly. The whole City runs at twenty miles an hour and its security cordon means several approaches are one way or camera-monitored. Stopping is difficult on Cheapside, Gracechurch Street and Fenchurch Street, so we use the quieter turnings behind them. The City lies inside the congestion charge zone, and the charge is arranged by us.

The rhythm here is the working day, and its edges are the busy parts. Early collections from home for a breakfast in EC2, transfers between offices when a meeting overruns and the walk is too far in the rain, and the evening run home or on to dinner in the West End. Client travel is the other constant: collecting a visiting delegation from Heathrow or London City, taking them to their hotel, then to the office at eight the following morning.

London City Airport is typically 25 to 45 minutes east, which makes it the natural choice from EC3. Heathrow runs 55 to 90 minutes and is best attempted before half past six or after ten in the morning. Stansted is usually 55 to 85 minutes up the M11, Luton 50 to 85 via the A1 or M1, and Gatwick 60 to 100. Liverpool Street and Fenchurch Street stations are minutes away for the eastern counties.