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What can you get to within a 15-minute walk of your house? (mediacdn.aus.social)
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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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[-] tiny@midwest.social 6 points 9 months ago

Usually gas stations have a convenience store that is easier to get in and out of compared grocery store and sometimes have good food as well. especially in the Midwest gas stations have really good food and are the best fast food joints in town. Also buccees

[-] PopMyCop@iusearchlinux.fyi 3 points 9 months ago

One of the few sad things about a transition to a car free(er) environment: no more bucees. They pay well, their bathrooms are great, and their food, though expensive, is great.

Also, you reminded me about the local gas station where I once worked nearby. They had better food, though it was all fried, than any place within a 20 minute drive.

[-] WalrusDragonOnABike@reddthat.com 2 points 9 months ago

Convenience/grocery stores still would exist. Buccees is probably better suited to becoming local grocery stores than most gas stations and superstores in terms of size. They just wouldn't be a regional attraction and wouldn't require crossing a sea of concrete to get to the store.

[-] Mouselemming@sh.itjust.works 1 points 9 months ago

Presumably they could transition, the profit margin on gas isn't that high. Maybe they could get bus routes to stop there, since people will still want to go that direction.

[-] bingbong@lemmy.dbzer0.com 3 points 9 months ago

It'll take you 15 minutes to cross a buccees parking lot >!kidding!<

[-] BossDj@lemm.ee 2 points 9 months ago

I had never heard of buccees. It's massive!

If the 'gas station' choice were replaced by 'convenience store' would a midwesterner have seen them as the same in this poll?

[-] WalrusDragonOnABike@reddthat.com 1 points 9 months ago* (last edited 9 months ago)

As someone in Texas, convenience store and gas station are interchangable words in my mind. A dollar store would be what I'd call a convenience store that doesn't sell gas.

[-] scrubbles@poptalk.scrubbles.tech 2 points 9 months ago

Yeah I think most people say gas station because they don't know the concept of a bodega

[-] billwashere@lemmy.world 1 points 9 months ago

Man when I was in college we had something like this in the bottom of my dorm. Super convenient.

We just got a buccees near me. It was like a big deal.

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