Load of Horses

As I mentioned yesterday I drive to work. In the early days this was up through the centre of London (Parliament Square, The Mall, Hyde Park Corner, Edgeware Road, Kilburn...) and latterly through West London (Chelsea Bridge, Embankment, Earls Court, Great West Road...). These are major routes and are quite often heavily congested and on a few occasions quite seriously gridlocked. There are the usual causes: roadworks, accidents, broken down vehicles, traffic light failures - but I was reminded today of a quaint and rather eccentric one: horses.

There are a number of barracks in London and at least some of them obviously have mounted units. The horses need to be exercised, so they need to be ridden through the streets of London to one of the parks for a bit of a workout. This is quite slow, sedate progress - a long column of pairs of horses crossing busy junctions, bringing traffic to a halt, and incidentally dumping bright brown trails of manure through the streets.

What would be a really good time of day to do this?

That's right. Rush hour.