Absolutely. As someone who has taken the slothful Oxford-Cambridge bus (4 hours on average!) through winding village lanes several times, travelling between the two cities is painful. An expressway would be fantastic - especially if it can avoid the endless roundabouts around Milton Keynes, though I would also note that for academic-to-a…
Absolutely. As someone who has taken the slothful Oxford-Cambridge bus (4 hours on average!) through winding village lanes several times, travelling between the two cities is painful. An expressway would be fantastic - especially if it can avoid the endless roundabouts around Milton Keynes, though I would also note that for academic-to-academic travel in particular, a direct train would be hugely beneficial, not least because (anecdotally) a decent percentage might not actually own cars.
Absolutely. As someone who has taken the slothful Oxford-Cambridge bus (4 hours on average!) through winding village lanes several times, travelling between the two cities is painful. An expressway would be fantastic - especially if it can avoid the endless roundabouts around Milton Keynes, though I would also note that for academic-to-academic travel in particular, a direct train would be hugely beneficial, not least because (anecdotally) a decent percentage might not actually own cars.
Is that the X5/905 bus? In Japan, you can get from Tokyo to Shin-Hakodate-Hokuto (over 800km) in 4 hours!
Dont even, Japan's transport infrastructure puts the UK to shame.
Likewise holding out a modicum of hope for a direct train (although right now I’d settle for a punt).