Question about travel arrangements for older children?

[mosschops30]

Dd is 15 (16 in june)
I have had an agreement with her paternal grandmother, that has changed over time, but for the last year or so has been every 3 weeks dd goes to her house for the weekend.
We meet halfway, which is a half hour drive fr both of us. Problem is that we have two other children, one who plays sport all weekend do we are often out and about, or sometimes we just want to be doing other stuff.
I find it quite restrictive because its an hour out of my day driving there and back.
How long do i have to facilitate this for?

Can't she go by herself on the train? She's almost 16 so should be able to make the journey alone.

Thats what i was thinking, thing is she would have to get train from here into citycentre then out to her nanas.
I will check out times and cost

Can you drop her off at the station, then gran collects her at the other end?

Its half an hour into city centre from here.
But she can deffo do that tickets are cheap, she changes in town which she would be fine doing
how would you broach it with grandmother?

Tell her that DD needs to learn how to be independent and it's not helping her if you both ferry her around. It'll cost her less in petrol if she collects her from the station.

Thanks i will speak to her later

Good luck!

But it has in the past when dd was much younger, resorted to solicitors letters. But its been fine for about 6 years now.
I have a lot of respect for her do dont want to cause trouble in anyway