Street's connectivity question resolves entirely into whether you own a car. There is no railway station and there has not been one since 1966. Buses are more frequent than the countryside usually manages, and almost nobody uses them to get to work. Over half the town drives. Broadband is the one piece of infrastructure that arrived on schedule and behaved itself.
The railway went in the Beeching cuts and never came back, leaving the nearest platforms outside the town entirely. Fewer than 1% of residents commute by train, which is less a preference than an admission. Buses do better than that suggests, with 76 stops across the area, though under 1% of residents use one to get to work. A bus network can be perfectly serviceable and still lose to a car park.
What the town actually does is drive. Around 52% of residents commute by car, around 23% work from home, around 15% walk and around 3% cycle. Around 15% of households have no car at all, while around 41% run two or more. That last pair is the honest shape of the place: a sizeable minority managing without, and a much larger group who quietly decided one vehicle was insufficient.
For the nearest town centre, the Department for Transport's modelled journey-time statistics put the drive at around 8 minutes, public transport at around 11, cycling at around 10 and walking at around 14. Those are modelled figures for the area rather than a route from any particular front door, so treat them as the shape of the journey and not the timing of yours.
The same source puts a general practitioner surgery at around 8 minutes by car, around 12 by public transport and around 15 on foot, and a food store at around 7 minutes by car and around 10 on foot. Employment centres sit at around 13 minutes by car and around 29 by public transport. The hospital is the outlier that matters: around 35 minutes by car and around 71 minutes by public transport, with walking not a realistic option at all. One caution on those public transport times, which date from 2019 and have not been refreshed since. Distances to fixed destinations do not move, but bus services have been withdrawn across rural England in the years since, so the car and walk figures deserve more trust than the public transport ones.
On the buses as they run now rather than as they were modelled, the stops with service data average around 109 scheduled weekday departures each, with around 8 departures in the peak hour. Around 89% of stops carry some weekend service. Those are counts of departures rather than routes, and they describe a network that genuinely functions rather than one that exists on a map for the sake of appearances.
Broadband is where Street quietly outclasses places with far better rail links. Gigabit-capable service reaches around 91% of premises, ultrafast around 92% and superfast around 99%, and no premises at all fall below the universal service obligation. Mobile coverage is close to complete, with around 100% of the area reached by at least one operator and around 97% by all of them.
Road noise is the one uncomfortable finding. Every postcode in the area sits near a road carrying noise at or above 65 decibels, the level at which official mapping treats road noise as significant, and the loudest mapped band reaches 75 decibels. Rail noise registers nowhere, for the obvious reason. None of that predicts what any particular house sounds like with the windows shut, but it does mean the quiet-village image needs checking against a specific address rather than assumed.
For electric vehicles, the area has 6 public charge points offering 15 connectors between them, of which 3 are rapid. Three rapid units is enough that charging is something you fit around an errand rather than an evening, though not enough that you would want the whole town switching at once.
Connectivity is the weak link in Street's otherwise decent hand. The fibre is excellent, the buses are respectable, and neither of them changes the fact that a town without a station asks you to own a car and then charges you nothing for the privilege of admitting it.