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What can you get to within a 15-minute walk of your house? (mediacdn.aus.social)
submitted 10 months ago by ajsadauskas@aus.social to c/fuck_cars@lemmy.ml
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What can you get to within a 15-minute walk of your house?

A recent YouGov survey asked Americans what they think they should be able to get to within a 15-minute walk of their house.

Of these choices, I can currently walk to all of them from my apartment, aside from a university (no biggie, I'm not currently studying, although there is a Tafe within walking distance), a hospital, and a sports arena.

How many can you get to with a 15 minute walk from your house?

#fuckcars #walkability #urbanism #UrbanPlanning @fuck_cars #walking

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[–] rusl@mstdn.social 1 points 10 months ago

@ajsadauskas @fuck_cars I can walk to all of these under 15 minutes except five of them that are all near the bottom of the list.

[–] shauna@social.coop 1 points 10 months ago

@ajsadauskas @fuck_cars Great question! I can do all of these in a fifteen minute (ish) walk except:

- a hospital (though I can walk to my doctor's office in 15 min)
- a university (if you count community colleges, I have one about 30 minutes walk away)
- shopping mall, movie theater, and sports arena

Every last one of these is accessible within 20-ish minutes if I use public transit, though.

[–] notroot@notroot.online 1 points 10 months ago (1 children)

@ajsadauskas@aus.social @fuck_cars@lemmy.ml I can get to all of those except a hospital and arena, too. Most in much less than 15 min. Granted, I live in a small city with a still vibrant downtown.

Of course, I wouldn't walk right now. It's freezing out there!

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[–] calzone_gigante@lemmy.eco.br 1 points 10 months ago* (last edited 10 months ago)

Live in Rio, from this list i have almost everything in a 15 minute walk distance the only exceptions are

  • shopping mall(30 min walking)
  • public hospital (used to have but it closed, now the closest is 30 min walking)
  • Movie theater(30 min walking)
  • Sports arena(1h walking)
  • Public University(2h walking)

Although i have a lot of services close, it is still a chore to go walking because a lot of the walking is uphill, i wish there was more public infrastructure to help people move up and down like trams and stuff like that, way back them the city uses to have trams everywhere, but now there's almost none.

What isn't on the list, but i absolutely didn't want around, was an neopentecostal church. Unfortunately, they are everywhere and super loud and disrespectful.

[–] NathanBurgoine@romancelandia.club 1 points 10 months ago (1 children)

@ajsadauskas @fuck_cars I'm in Riverside South in Ottawa, so I can only walk fifteen minutes to a park, a bus stop, and an elementary school (which also, I believe, operates a day care). That's it. But if I expand that to half-an-hour, I can add a pharmacy and a post office in one direction and *maybe* a restaurant and a grocery store in another (I'm not sure if I'd get there in half an hour, though. Might be a bit longer).

And lord knows the bus stop in Ottawa, via OC Transpo is... a gamble.

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[–] BenAveling@mastodon.au 1 points 10 months ago

@fuck_cars @ajsadauskas there should be more hospitals than hair dressers/barbers said no one ever.

[–] Lileath@lemmy.blahaj.zone 1 points 10 months ago (1 children)

I can get to everything except the hospital, mall, movie theatre, and University in twenty minutes. If I use public transport I can get to those in about half an hour.

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[–] Kecessa@sh.itjust.works 1 points 10 months ago

I've got 14, 15 if I switch university with a trades school (which is much more important to a semi rural town of 7k)

[–] synae@lemmy.sdf.org 1 points 10 months ago

laughs in San Franciscan

[–] quoidian@mastodon.online 1 points 10 months ago* (last edited 10 months ago)

@ajsadauskas @fuck_cars
Everything on the list, except for a shopping mall and a movie theatre, is within a twenty minute walk.

The bus route is a three year pilot project - a subsidized shuttle from the regional transit hub [ 1 hr South of us ] to the small city one hr north of us.
No university nor college though highschool has night-school uni credit courses.

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