Bank Holiday Travel News & Planning

If you're using public transport this Bank Holiday then the journey planner that the BBC has teamed up with Transport Direct should be just the tonic you need to avoid the Bank Holiday travel chaos.

You can visit the site here. The good thing is that it gives you a range of options as to how you'd like to do your journey. For example for a trip from Warrington Bank Quay train station to Euston Station you have various options:

1) Bus, Train, Walk - 4 hours 3mins
2) Bus, Train Walk - 4 hours 21mins
3) Bus, Coach, Underground, Walk - 8 hours 17 Mins
4) Car - 3 hours 53 mins, 191.5 miles

This is a great feature and would have been useful to people I know recently has they weighed up different options to get to Heathrow airport from Liverpool.

There would be one improvement, however. And that would be an indication of the cost of those particular routes. For this to happen they'd need to have access to all the costs and databases of the different travel companies - something I don't see happening anytime soon.

Anyhow, the BBC Travel News route planner is a great way to avoid the Bank Holiday travel blues.