Badly, unless you count the car and the router. Half the town drives to work. A third doesn't commute at all. Almost nobody takes a train. The broadband is modern and the transport is a timetable.
The town has no railway station. Anyone catching a regular train to London or the West Country drives or takes the bus to Swindon or Chippenham first. At the 2021 Census, well under 1% of workers here commuted by rail. The buses carry about 2% of commuters, across 59 stops. The mainline trains pass close enough to hear and never stop, which counts as a particular kind of local joke.
The town gets to work by car or doesn't go. About 50% of workers drive, and about 36% worked from home, more than any other option except the car. About 7% walk and about 1% cycle. About 46% of households run two cars or more, and only about 13% have none. Those numbers describe a town that has quietly given up waiting for anything else.
Short trips are fine, provided the trip is short. The Department for Transport's journey-time statistics, modelled for the area rather than from any particular front door, put the nearest town centre about 8 minutes away by car, 11 by bike, 16 by public transport and 18 on foot. A GP is about 8 minutes by car, 16 by public transport and 18 on foot. A food store is about 7 minutes by car or 11 on foot. The hospital is the problem: about 20 minutes by car and 62 by public transport. The model puts employment about 30 minutes away by car and 15 by public transport. The public transport figures date from 2019, services have been cut since, so give them less weight than the car and walking times.
Bus stops and bus services aren't the same thing. The town's stops average 35 scheduled weekday departures each, about 2 an hour at peak, and about 98% of them see some weekend service. That is a real service, not a ghost timetable. It is also not frequent enough for anyone to stop checking their watch.
Broadband is the part that works. Gigabit-capable connections reach about 93% of premises, ultrafast about 94% and superfast all of them. The home-workers didn't get lucky; they read the map correctly.
Mobile coverage is clean. About 100% of the area has 4G or 5G from at least one operator and about 98% from all of them, so the choice of network comes down to price rather than geography.
There is noise to go with the traffic. On the official noise mapping, where 65 decibels is the level at which road noise counts as significant, about 100% of postcodes sit near or above that line for road noise, and the loudest band present reaches 75 decibels. Rail noise is a separate source and hits about 67% of postcodes near or above 65 decibels, again peaking at 75. How loud any single house gets depends on the house, so listen at the viewing instead of trusting the listing's description of a "peaceful setting".
Electric vehicle drivers get 3 public charge points with 8 connectors between them, and 1 of those is rapid. With one rapid unit, charging becomes something you plan, unless a charger on the driveway comes first.
In practice, most commutes here start in a car. Life works well for anyone driving to the motorway or working from a spare bedroom, and poorly for anyone hoping to live without an ignition key.
Connectivity is the town's weak spot: excellent broadband, adequate buses, and a railway that passes through without stopping.