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.
If I had no responsibilities for the day I would walk that but if I had anything else it would add up too much
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.
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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 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?
Maybe on a nice day, but then really because I want to take a walk, and not out of necessity.
Bus or bike distance.
But i also walk closer to 3mph so maybe it would be on the edge of the weather is nice.
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.
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.
I did close to that, when I was finding jobs after college, I was applying to listing in a library,/uni library. The trains back before pandemic decided they need to renovate for 6 years, so it left with limited options for transportation
Hey, my local public library is 3.2km away from me, which is about a 45 minute walk!
Anyways, no. I have multiple affordable public transit options that can take me there in 10 minutes. There are also bike lanes for the entire route if I ever decide to bike.
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
3.7Km
It is more like 40-50 minutes if you’re in the town with actual roads, not just a corn field.
would you walk an hour and 15 minutes to go to say, the library?
Walking more than an hour just to get to one place? No, unless walking is a sub-goal. You know, the weather is nice, no tasks for today…
