£2 limit to bus trips, so can I live without a car?

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So internet tells me it costs £8 at the moment, would need to change at Welshpool, but it seems it only runs 3 times a day. So into Welshpool earliest 10:23 leave Welshpool latest 15:02 actually a train at 17:00 so next the next leg, to Shrewsbury. So, there is a bus 10:50 so 27 minutes seems OK, so 11:37 at Shrewsbury. So return 13:22 the next bus misses the connection by 8 minutes. I could catch the train with next bus, but either 52 minutes or 1 hour 50 minutes if using train, so for 1 hour 45 minutes in Shrewsbury it takes 3 hours 45 minutes travel and using the train even longer. And since in the main a steam train, does not really help the environment. By car 80 minutes return. So even if only £2 (likely £4 return) can't see me using the bus. Getting a hospitial appointment to tie in with those times seems unlikely.