One of the main reasons people chose to live where they do is thanks to transport.

Your house might be close to school or work or near a train station or bus route that can take you where you need to be.

Roads, rails, cycle paths and walkways are really important parts of town planning and they all have to be managed so that they aren’t overcrowded!

It’s a very careful balancing act and in different areas there will be different solutions.

Take London for example! London has loads of streets and although newer ones are quite big, a lot of them are old and narrow.

If everybody in London drove, you’d get nowhere fast and it would cause lots of pollution. That’s why public transport works so well, like the London Underground.

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London is really fascinating because it has loads of different transport methods.

To get to your destination you could… Walk, cycle, jump on the underground, get on a ferry, hop on a bus, ride the cable car, get a tram, take a taxi, drive, or even even fly!

However, the Underground wouldn’t work so well in somewhere like Scotland where towns and places to visit are a little further apart.

There, it would be much better to drive or take a train.

Trains are useful because they connect big cities together like Bristol and Birmingham. However, town planners need to make sure that the train station is easy to get to.

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Many people will walk or cycle to the train station to save them parking their car…

Town planners need to make sure everyone’s opinions and needs are taken into account, and try to come up with a plan which will stand the test of time – and avoiding harm to the environment.

We warned you it was a balancing act!

Here’s a mission for you: Can you think of all the different ways you could get from your home to your school?

You just need to Plan It. And who better to help than AGENT PLAN-IT!