It's three-quarters of a mile to the main road from my house and there's no safe place for a bus to stop up there. Not that there are that many buses anyway, a few per day, all at daft times, and you can't get back home. I can get two or three buses a day to the nearest large towns (all between forty and sixty miles away), but getting home again having had a sensible length of time in your destination is a nightmare. Dr Beeching saw to it that rail travel is nobbut a distant dream. No cars would mean a completely depopulated countryside, one which has long had its viability undermined in any case by said depopulation. It's a choice, I suppose.