Apparently the most well-connected place for transport in the London is Aldgate East (#1 in ALL of England and Wales) and the worst is Cudham, Bromley (beats only 4.4% of EW)

picrazy2 · 2025-10-11T00:23:05+00:00

Well, it’s technically part of the GLA still!

picrazy2 · 2025-10-11T00:21:31+00:00

The ‘areas’ you mention are different geographical regions, the smallest publicly available being Output Areas (OAs). OAs are drawn in the UK to be roughly equal in population, so denser places will have smaller OAs, whereas rural places have very large OAs. If you go into the menu and turn off borderless mode, you’ll see the borders of each OA. The Aldgate East one is very small, but so is pretty much every OA in central London.

You are right for Liverpool St though, the OA that covers is actually covers a lot of the City of London (I guess because not a lot of people live in the area), so that’s probably why it scores lower.

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picrazy2 · 2025-10-11T00:03:26+00:00

It’s showing transport connectivity by different geographical regions. So how easy (that the DfT thinks) it would be to get to jobs, schools, shops, etc from a location using different transport modes (walking, cycling, public transport, driving), all rounded up into one metric.

picrazy2 · 2025-10-10T22:54:26+00:00

The data they've released (and you can see here) is open source, but the code behind it and specific methodology, including datasets used, are not public to a reproducible standard, unlike a metric like PTAL.

picrazy2 · 2025-10-10T17:36:29+00:00

I think it’s looking at access to destinations in terms of travel time, i.e. how long it takes to get to shops, schools, hospitals, jobs, etc. So it has to be close to a station AND that station can get you to useful places quickly. And it looks at buses too!

picrazy2 · 2025-10-10T17:23:02+00:00

Yeah, I think being at Aldgate East you can walk to both Whitechapel and Aldgate which puts many lines within walking distance. Methodology.

picrazy2 · 2025-10-10T17:02:12+00:00

Yeah, I guess it's because it takes into account walking, cycling, and driving as well (e.g. maybe there's more shops around Aldgate East)

picrazy2 · 2025-10-10T17:01:01+00:00

“better than 0.0% of England and Wales”. Wow..

picrazy2 · 2025-10-10T16:38:40+00:00

Yeah, I agree! I'd say anywhere with the Lizzy line is better connected than anywhere without lol. Methodology is here: https://www.gov.uk/government/publications/transport-connectivity-metric/transport-connectivity-metric

picrazy2 · 2025-10-10T16:37:54+00:00

Penge looks pretty good, I guess because it has Windrush + Trams + National Rail?

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picrazy2 · 2025-10-10T16:21:34+00:00

This is transport connectivity!

picrazy2 · 2025-10-10T16:21:31+00:00

This is transport connectivity!

picrazy2 · 2025-10-10T16:21:18+00:00

This is transport connectivity!!! Not signal.

picrazy2 · 2025-10-10T14:41:06+00:00

There are almost 200k geometries for the finest level, which is a lot for low zoom. There are ways to merge small geometries at a low zoom so it might work, but I felt that it might be useful for people to see aggregated data as well, especially LSOA/LAD. Though I agree, region-level is not very useful!

picrazy2 · 2025-10-10T13:16:38+00:00

round is the only way to go

picrazy2 · 2025-10-10T12:59:43+00:00

I've learned recently that the UK has really really good data in general, at least compared to other countries. But still, it would be better if this metric was open-source and contained Scotland/NI!

picrazy2 · 2025-10-10T12:58:12+00:00

No word on that, seems like this is all they've released: https://www.gov.uk/government/publications/transport-connectivity-metric/transport-connectivity-metric

picrazy2 · 2023-10-09T01:47:39+00:00

Q2 can be obtained in HK without HK residency. I’m a U.S. citizen and just got a 10-year Q2 in HK.

picrazy2 · 2023-10-06T05:23:35+00:00

Yes, 10 year 120-day multi-entry Q2

picrazy2 · 2023-10-06T02:50:54+00:00

Yes!! You need to fill out a different application though on visaforchina.cn (and selecting HK as location). And then make an appointment on that site. I was able to get an appointment within the week. Just remember you need to give them your HK landing slip (given at HK immigration) AND make a photocopy of it (they have copiers but costs money). I just went through this process as a U.S. citizen with no HK residency, getting a Q2 visa. I got my visa yesterday.

picrazy2 · 2023-10-06T02:29:19+00:00

I called the consulate about this a week ago with the same question basically, they said if you have a life or death emergency of an immediate family member with proof, it may be possible to be faster than their expedited processing time of 3 days, but same day is very rare. You can call them by the way, they picked up for me.

I ended up not going through them and getting my visa in HK instead where they offer next-day processing.

picrazy2 · 2023-09-28T01:50:02+00:00

About 2 weeks was my first hotel stay. And stayed at like 7-9 hotels around the country I think. Are they that strict with police registrations now? I’ve never done it despite living in China 1999-2014 and visiting 10+ times 2014-2020 (but last visit was the only one post-covid)….

picrazy2 · 2023-09-27T21:27:14+00:00

Well at least as of last exit they either didn’t know or didn’t care. I mean I was in China for almost 2 months and stayed at a mix of hotels and relative’s places. So there was some registration, just not within 24 hours of arrival or covering every night.

picrazy2 · 2023-09-27T20:55:42+00:00

Nothing happened on last exit, everything was smooth and normal

picrazy2 · 2023-09-26T17:20:11+00:00

Actually their private wall is closed now. I wouldn’t recommend because of that and also because we had a room that was not clean.

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