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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 [email protected] to c/[email protected]

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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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[–] [email protected] 1 points 10 months ago* (last edited 10 months ago) (7 children)

Mid-sized village (around 10k inhabitants) in Germany:

4 grocery stores
2 pharmacies
Bus stop (and train station)
5 or so restaurants
Post office
Bank
Gas station
Elementary school
2 Kindergartens
2 barber shops
Bar
Sports field (calling it an arena would be a bit much)

Alas, no university or hospital, but I think for a village it's pretty good.

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[–] [email protected] 0 points 10 months ago

@ajsadauskas @fuck_cars can reach all of them, although depends on what is considered a “sport arena”. I'm shocked not to see a “church” as list option, though 🇻🇦

[–] [email protected] 0 points 10 months ago (5 children)

@ajsadauskas @fuck_cars
Why should I *walk* to a *gas station*?

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[–] [email protected] 0 points 10 months ago (9 children)

I do not understand why you would want to walk to a gas station.

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[–] [email protected] 0 points 10 months ago

@ajsadauskas @fuck_cars All except a Uni.

Shopping Mall? Well, not really, but yes to local shopping strip (5 minutes), Fitzroy St, St Kilda and Clarendon St, South Melbourne (10 Minutes) both covering all shopping needs.

Brisk 20 minutes would get me to the closest CBD campus of a Uni.

And three minutes walk to two tram lines.

Kids walked or public transported to school.

I rode or public transported to work (or taxi and flew because it was in another state or country).

One car family - have never been really able to give up a car, entirely, but never needed two.

[–] [email protected] 0 points 10 months ago (1 children)

Everything where I live (Austrian city), except for the hospital. That would be 20min.

[–] [email protected] 0 points 10 months ago (1 children)

Replace the walking with bicycling and that would be everything (the Netherlands, so cycling is the default mode of transportation), except the mall, we don’t do malls.

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[–] [email protected] 0 points 10 months ago

@ajsadauskas @fuck_cars all but the university (that is an hour🚲 or 40 min 🚄+🚍).

[–] [email protected] 0 points 10 months ago (4 children)

I wonder what the meaning of “should not” is in this survey. A restaurant “should not” be withing 15 minutes of my home, as in “I don’t want any restaurants near me” or is it “It’s not important enough to be in the local government’s target list”?

I don’t understand the red bars the way the question is phrased now. Why wouldn’t you want a park near you?

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[–] [email protected] 0 points 10 months ago (2 children)

Disappointingly I only have the grocery store within that distance, and it's a Walmart with no sidewalk for a stretch of that walk... But back to that list... Why would you need a gas station within walking distance? Am I walking with my car Flintstones style?

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[–] [email protected] 0 points 10 months ago (1 children)

@ajsadauskas @fuck_cars

In pretty central … all of them except I think a gas station.

[–] [email protected] 0 points 10 months ago

Not even sure why a gas station is included here.

[–] [email protected] 0 points 10 months ago (2 children)

@fuck_cars @ajsadauskas all but a park, hospital and uni for me, though I’d get to them in about 30-45 mins and there are good buses to the latter two. Not a bad score really. I’m intrigued that the question in the poll starts out with reference to the 15-minute neighbourhood. Given the conspiracy theories I wonder if they’d get higher scores without an “ideological” scene setting and just asked the questions in isolation.

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