Is that amount of time common to walk in places in the world where cars don’t dictate the layout of the community?
Im going to be making this walk tomorrow, no worries, I’m just curious if its normal in other places. Maps says its 1hour15minues for 2.3miles or 3.7Km.
I think the most I would walk is around 40-45 minutes. So no, 1h15m would be far too long to justify walking. Maybe on the weekend if the library was super nice?
I would ride a bike. But generally yes, an hour to get across town is normal and not the crazy thing car brains imagine it to be.
i try to walk 4 miles a day and often i burn those miles going to the library
If I had no responsibilities for the day I would walk that but if I had anything else it would add up too much
Bus or bike distance.
But i also walk closer to 3mph so maybe it would be on the edge of the weather is nice.
Where I grew up it was about a 45 minute walk to the library. I went maybe twice a year.
Now I’m about 15 minutes from the library and I’m there weekly.
Its a perfectly fine walk to go that far, it just kinda blows to do it regularly
I used to live in a city where it was 15 minutes to the library, but the walk was awful. No trees, ugly houses, then near a major road. There was homeless tents and no alternatives.
My new place, the walk is gorgeous. Trees, dog walkers, houses with so many ecofriendly gardens. It takes about 30 minutes. But a fraction of the time on a bike.
No, I wouldn’t. For daily needs, the walk needs to be less than 10 minutes. Weekly less than 20, and anything over that needs to be a special thing. I know the pain of lugging back groceries and a heavy load of books on what was a 20 minute walk one way. Those get a bike with luggage, or the scooter.
I think my requirements would be the same if I had to use a car, actually. An hour trip to see relatives is a once a month/every two months thing.
4km / >30 mins is ok for 2x per month - but get a bike, that’s a 15 min ride - just l9ng enough for casual excessive.
For me everything more than 10’ of walking from my home is a bike default. Except i need to transport bulky equipment or it rains very strongly. Then its walking with umbrella + bus/train. (I dont own a car, as I live in a City.)
I’d walk that for pleasure, but not for work. Time for you to get a bike.
Hell no. Maybe if it was a really nice weather, but I would still go home with a bus or a tram, no way I’ll carry books that long.
What stops to put a tram there? Or bike there? Thats then 10-20 minutes from my experience
There really could be a tram there. It’s my pike dream.
Cars rule everything here. :(
Fat Americans… Right. But they forbid walking for day to day life, make it hostile basically anywhere that isn’t a major city, and even there it kind of sucks to walk/take the bus/ride a bike.
There’s density here, Universities, my husband works at one of them, he leaves an extra 30 minutes early for work everyday, because parking is such a removed up there they fight for spots(workers have to pay for a parking pass too!). My son can’t even ride his bike to a park or to school. I can’t tell you how much I hate it. I’m literally trapped unless I have a car. We won’t be able to move somewhere walkable that dream is dead.
I was fit when I rode my bike to work, back in the day in my states capital. My grandfather was a civil engineer who helped design this hell. I will always hate him. I don’t have the freedom of movement unless I was to dodge cars going 60mph, and be the only person on the sandy street, where people just stare at you like you’re poor from their cars.
Anyway. Ugh. I can hope for changes in the future, but that is becoming very bleak each day.
I knowww right? Im not from america but when ever i see that something around the corner is a 160 minutes walk is CRAZY! Even here in german country side you have to rely on cars to even get anywhere outside the villages!! One should have the right, to get to anywhere with public transport and not be reliant on private tools!
I dont get the whole “cars give you freedom” argument.
How are you indipendent if you are trapped in a metal cage you cant move around in? Dependend on so many companies, mechanics, oil, licensing, insurance and all that you pay yourself!!
I once met one that tried to argue car dependence is good because since you force people to spend their money on all that is good for the economy. I am NOT KIDDING!
The “cars give you freedom” argument also completely breaks apart if you stop to think about the millions of people who can’t drive, such as children and blind people, who are forced to rely on someone else taking them everywhere because they can’t walk without getting run over and public transport is nonexistent.
It’s only “freedom” if you can afford it.
Yes! It is a right!
It SHOULD BE a right! IN LAW just like food, water, housing!!
No, that’s way too far just for the library. I’d do that for pleasure but right now I’m time poor and can’t afford that for a general task.
no, but i would bike 10 minutes
Maybe on a nice day, but then really because I want to take a walk, and not out of necessity.
