The texture of life in any country is made of a pattern of small things endlessly repeated until they become too familiar to be visible at all: what is it like to go to work or to buy a drink or snack, what clothes are in the shops. All these things can appear exotic to foreigners, however little the natives tend to think of them. That is why one symbol of England is – or was – a red postbox, while Holland is remembered for a cheese. These are the sort of things that go unnoticed till they disappear. Judged on these everyday standards, England contains two countries as different as two other European nations, even if they speak the same language. London stands out from the rest of the nation by almost every cultural and financial measure.
One of these pervasive yet hardly noticed differences is in the quality of public transport. Londoners have an integrated system which mostly works. Buses, tubes and suburban rail services will take you almost anywhere you might want with a simple and comprehensible fare structure. Most of the time this is quicker than car travel as well as more civilised and better for the environment. But outside the city, as our research highlights, things are very different.
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