To go on my holidays I need, in this order, bus, train, pod* plane, bus, ferry, bus! It's fun but leaves a higher percentage of things that can go wrong on the way!
Central Business District. Not just limited to cities...
Exactly,just proves my point.
A lot more than a 14 minutes walk, Google seems to have a standardised formula based on distance only for walking times. For the quickest route( I don't know how well you know Reading), you'd have to walk up Greyfriars Rd and cross the IDR at Chatham St bridge (kind of a smaller-scale urban motorway for other forum members), then turn the corner onto Oxford Road and walk towards Reading West. Minimum 20 minutes. With the bus,as you say, it's probably a bit quicker,10 minutes in total I'd estimate,but nowhere near as fast as the train.
The City of London would be a lot more interesting if it was the centre of CBD....well it made me chuckle, which is something I suppose
Which way is that to Oxford? A4/M4/A34 or A4074? If it's A4074, then the traffic will significantly delay you until you are out of Reading and perhaps some agricultural traffic closer to Wallingford. It's probably more likely to be 3x the train timing.
Yes Bangor to Pwllheli by train would be some journey!
Stone to stoke on trent. Average 6 to 8 mins while travelling by bus can take up to 56 minutes and car 17 minutes
If restricted to foot vs train then North Greenwich to Canning Town can beat that - 2 minutes by train but an hour and 51 minutes (111 minutes) walking via the Greenwich foot tunnel - 55× faster.
