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Mobile Culture Studies. The Journal 3 2o17 Samantha Wilkinson, Catherine Wilkinson | Night-Life and Young People’s Atmospheric Mobilities 85 Tim describes starting the night in a quiet pub with a few pints, before ‘going big’. He would then walk to another pub where he would move on to shorts (e.g. gin and tonic). Subsequently, Tim would go to a nightclub, where he may “meet some girls”. After this, Tim would use a taxi to get back to Chorlton, where he would order a takeaway, prior to going to bed. Here, one can see the map is useful for providing a spatio-temporal account of Tim’s night out. Tim articu- lates that, despite living in Chorlton, he prefers consuming alcohol in Manchester’s city centre because it is “more lively”. Tim works in Manchester, and so a typical night out would start in the city following work. Figure 1 demonstrates that Tim’s primary mode of transport between his drinkingscapes is walking. However, Tim draws a taxi on the map noting that he uses this form of transport to get back to Chorlton. Transport then, can be seen to “weave distinct place temporalities” (Vannini 2012, 241). Despite young people’s occasional desires to escape the temporalities associated with their suburban locations – in order to access commercial drinking premises elsewhere – many young people in the study vehemently oppose the idea of driving when under the influence of alcohol. Nonetheless, numerous young people in the study admitted consuming alcohol on the move as a passenger on various forms of transport. Some young people, from both Chorlton and Wythenshawe, spoke of consuming alcohol in mobile spaces as a means of using ‘travel time’ productively (see Lyons and Urry 2005), as the following quotations illustrate: Fig.1.: Tim’s Night Out (Tim, 19, Chorlton)