Totton is well connected by car and by cable, and largely theoretical by train. The roads do the real work, the broadband quietly outperforms everything else, and the railway exists more as a line on the map than as a habit anyone keeps. Well over half the town drives to work and more than a quarter now work from home, which between them tell you how people here actually move: behind a wheel or not at all. The train is available and almost nobody uses it. For a town this size, that is a connectivity profile built around the car and the router, not the platform.
The public transport is a study in options people decline to take. Totton has its own station in Totton Rail Station, with Redbridge and Millbrook close by and Southampton Central sitting a short hop away as the mainline hub for direct trains to London and along the coast. Despite all that, only around one resident in two hundred commutes by rail, which is less a transport statistic than a confession. Buses fare little better: the town is scattered with well over a hundred stops, yet barely one worker in a hundred travels by bus. The infrastructure is there, well stocked and mostly ignored, because the car gets people where they are going faster and the numbers show they know it.
Where Totton genuinely shines is the connection that does not involve leaving the house. Gigabit-capable broadband reaches close to nine in ten homes, and faster-than-basic service is all but universal across the town. For a place whose railway is a formality, that matters more than it looks, because the modern Totton commute increasingly runs down a cable rather than a track. If your job lives on a screen, this town connects you to it about as well as anywhere in the region.
For a typical working day, the practical answer is that Totton assumes a car and rewards one. Reaching the town centre takes only a handful of minutes by road, the motorway funnels the longer journeys toward the city and beyond, and the rail option remains a genuine possibility for anyone willing to drive to the platform first. Households without a car are not stranded, given the bus coverage, but they are working against the grain of how the place is built. Everyone else drives, and the design of the town quietly agrees with them.
The verdict is a fair middle. Totton connects you excellently online, comfortably by road, and only nominally by rail, which averages out to a town that is easy to get around as long as you are not relying on the train to do it.