It's gonna be real annoying for future me with arthritis.
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Yes, when i was a piss poor student I walked home from the booze shop because I missed the bus.
No. I'd not do that anymore. I don't have the free time and I prefer other kinds of exercise.
I will sometimes walk up to an hour or so to go somewhere but that's more occasional, for something I need to do regularly 30 minutes is the upper end. Above that, I would usually look at public transports, bike, or car options
1h15 for 3.7 km sounds quite slow though, I would expect closer to 45 minutes for that kind of distance around where I am
I used to walk an hour and a half to get home from university, but I bussed to get there so I could sleep later and not be too sweaty when I arrived. I believe this would hold true for a library, as I tend to use that time to reflect on what I learned and plan out things.
That said, I'm an outlier; most people won't walk more than an hour, or even 30 minutes, unless I promise them a fun stop on the way or something.
I walk more than that just to listen to my podcast in peace lol
I've been walking 3 miles uphill to get to uni every day and it makes you feel so much more accomplished when you do it. I live in a pretty car centric city but there are pavements the whole way there so it's not too bad.
I used to live about that distance from my work. I only walked it occasionally, if the weather was nice, I had the time to spare, and a little extra energy. Generally I took the bus.
I think 30 minutes is about how long I’d walk to get somewhere before considering public transit or driving.
Definitely would bike or bus something over 30m
No.
Walking that much sucks because you are all sweaty when you arrive at your destination.
Walkable environments wouldn't include distances like that anyways. The real way to solve this issue is to have town centers that you drive to, and then leave your car behind when you enter it.
If you have even moderate housing density and don’t have giant parking lots and freeways everywhere you can fit most things within a 2 mile radius. Then with that higher density of people since you aren’t wasting a bunch of space on highways and parking you can build usable public transit
Is that amount of time common to walk in places in the world where cars don't dictate the layout of the community?
No. My City is walkable from one end to the other within an hour. and most things are of course located in the middle of the city, making it so I can go to the library within 10 minutes.
I'm just curious if its normal in other places.
What part of „15 Minutes” as in „15 Minute city” are you too lobotomized to understand?