Badly, unless you count the driveway. Almost nobody takes the train. The bus barely registers. Nearly half the workforce doesn't commute at all. Send is well connected to its own garage.
There's no station in the village. The nearest rail options are Woking, West Byfleet, Clandon, Worplesdon, and Guildford's two stations, Guildford and London Road. That's a decent choice of platforms, all of them somewhere else. The train accounts for about 2% of commutes. There are 28 bus stops, and the bus accounts for less than 1% of trips to work. Plenty of transport infrastructure surrounds the village, and very little of it gets used.
The commute mix is where the argument gets made. About 47% of working residents work from home and 43% drive. Walking manages about 2% and cycling about 1%. Only about 7% of households have no car, and 63% have two or more. The village didn't reject public transport so much as find a way to never need it.
The Department for Transport's journey-time statistics are modelled for the area, not measured from any particular front door. They put the nearest town centre about 16 minutes away by car, 30 by public transport, 27 by bike and 67 on foot. An hour-plus walk to the shops is the finding here, and it's why the second car isn't a luxury.
The same statistics cover everyday destinations. A GP is about 8 minutes by car, 14 by public transport and 20 on foot. A food store is about 7 minutes by car and 12 on foot, which is walkable for the weekly top-up if not the full shop. A hospital is about 19 minutes by car and 57 by public transport. Employment is about 22 minutes by car and 18 by public transport. The public transport figures date from 2019, and services may have changed since, so trust the car and walking times more than the bus ones.
The bus timetable is current. Each stop averages about 15 scheduled departures on a weekday, and about half a bus an hour at peak. About 83% of stops have some weekend service. That's a bus you plan your day around, not one you walk out and catch.
Broadband is split. Superfast reaches about 99% of premises and ultrafast about 55%, but gigabit only about 40%. For a village where nearly half the workforce works from home, which side of that line a house sits on matters more than the distance to Woking.
Mobile coverage is close to complete. About 100% of the area gets 4G or 5G from at least one operator, and about 99% from all of them.
Road noise is nearly universal: about 99% of postcodes are near or above 65 decibels, the level at which official noise mapping treats road noise as significant, and the loudest band present reaches 75 decibels. Rail noise is a separate source, and about 84% of postcodes are near or above the same threshold, with a top band of 65 decibels. None of that says how loud any particular bedroom will be. It does say a quiet village can still be a noisy one to live in.
There's one public charge point in the area, with one connector, and it isn't rapid. With no rapid unit, charging an electric car here is something you do at home overnight, not while you nip to the shops.
Send's connectivity is poor. It works well for households that drive or work from home, and fails anyone hoping to live here without a car.
