Well connected, and most residents barely use it. Three stations inside the district. About four hundred bus stops. Eight in ten homes wired for gigabit fibre. The rails and buses run past a working-from-home majority who bought the option and mostly declined to use it.
Rail sits on the west-coastway line. Hove Rail Station is the main station. Aldrington Rail Station picks up eastward traffic and Portslade Rail Station the west. Direct trains run east into Brighton Rail Station in minutes, north to London, and west along the coast through Fishersgate Rail Station, Southwick Rail Station, and Shoreham-by-Sea Rail Station. Only about one in forty commutes is by train. That is not because the trains do not run. That is because most residents no longer commute. Buses do a slightly bigger share at roughly six per cent, running on the seafront corridor and the two main north-south spines. Roughly four hundred bus stops sit inside the boundary, which is generous for a district that mostly walks and mostly works from home.
Broadband is the load-bearing bit of the picture. Gigabit fibre reaches about eight in ten addresses. Ultrafast covers just under nine in ten. Superfast is at essentially every address. Nothing sits below the universal service obligation. Which is a technical way of saying you can run a video call from a Regency flat off Church Road on the same speed you would get from a mansion block in central London, and roughly half the district already does.
Getting about the district itself is close to walkable. Journey time to the local town centre is about ten minutes by car, twelve by bike, sixteen by public transport, and just over twenty on foot. That is a district where the car saves you ten minutes over walking and costs you the parking argument. Most residents solve that arithmetic in favour of walking. Roughly one in eight commutes on foot, and one in twenty by bike. The one commute mode that beats them both is not commuting at all, which is the choice about half the working population has already made.
Three and a half out of five on the connectivity scorecard. Better than the average district, and worse than a proper commuter town. Which is where a place ends up when it built the network at Victorian scale, and the residents then quietly decided not to use it.