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Let’s talk travel.
Do you have a train station? Where are the main places you can directly get to from it?
Buses - do you get National Express/Megabus? Where are the main destinations you can reach on local bus lines?
How easy is it to reach surrounding towns and villages without a car?
What time do your buses and trains finish for the night? (Most of our local lines finish around 6pm )
I used to live in towns for university (Coventry, Kenilworth and Leamington Spa) and as a London person, I was alarmed by how early the last bus was and how expensive the buses were, and how a trip to IKEA took me through three towns on one relatively short bus ride
What are we calling a town, nowadays? The “village” I live in has a population of something like 12,000 which I reckon is well into “small town” territory. No train station, but it used to have one.
Where I grew up (suburb of a medium sized town) has no buses on a Sunday. And the bus drivers are a bit prone to making up their own routes, so even if there is nominally a bus, I think it’s supposedly like 3 an hour during the day, there’s no chance of them showing up at the time listed on the timetable and they might just have decided to take a different route.
I think I probably wrote this somewhere on here before, but I was once on the train passing through Uckfield and two teenagers had the following conversation: