To not understand why the fuel situation is so bad in the SE when they have better public transport than the rest of the country and shorter distances

[3dame]

Where we live public transport is woefully bad, non existent in many places and expensive.Bigger county too than most SE counties.

Where I live outside Greater London the buses are ridiculously expensive and not that good. Eg. £12 return to a shopping centre 2 hourly.

Population density. It really is huge in London - some of the highest population densities in the world. I read somewhere that it actually meets the technical description of a desert, in terms of water availability per capita, for exactly the same reason. Jobs or no jobs, not a place I’ve ever wanted to live (or could afford to, fortunately! )

Another saying how bad public transport is. If I don’t drive, I can either spend over an hour (walking + train + dangerous walk) or I can walk the five miles to and from work. I’d have to leave at 5am to get to work.

I live rural home counties and 4 miles from a railway station. Walkable - just.

The town 12 miles away that I work in also has a railway station. Just not on the same line.

I would have to walk 4 miles, take an hour's train journey into London, walk to the other terminus, wait for a train, spend another hour on another train back out of London, and at the end, walk the 3 miles or so from the station to where I work. And the same in reverse on the way home.

Or I could drive 12 miles each way.

I've just done a route finder for getting to my office base via public transport. The 25 minute car journey would take almost three hours