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submitted 9 months ago by ajsadauskas@aus.social to c/fuck_cars@lemmy.ml

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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[-] kagan@wandering.shop 32 points 9 months ago

@ajsadauskas @fuck_cars I'm kind of sad that "cafe", "bookstore", and "library" aren't even on this list at all. 😢

I would honestly have to do a web search to find out where the nearest elementary school, day care, and gas station are, but I'd be stunned if I didn't have those within 15 minutes. As it is, I do have everything else, including a university and a sports arena, and *two* malls. (I'm in between the Barclays Center and Long Island University in Fort Greene, Brooklyn, NYC.)

[-] AA5B@lemmy.world 2 points 9 months ago

I’m not sure what counts as a cafe or not, but most likely have several. Like it or not, bookstores have mostly disappeared. I do have one about 25 minutes walk but really think it’s an aberration.

Yeah, libraries deserve so much more attention than they get. We have a really nice old fashioned one an easy walk, that does a great job of supporting the community, but I don’t know if many people really use it. It’s actually the first place we let our kids walk home alone from, when they were little. Of course now I’m probably a detractor, using their resources for ebooks without visiting much anymore

[-] emmatonkin@mstdn.social 1 points 9 months ago

@kagan @ajsadauskas @fuck_cars
Back when I attended library science conferences regularly I would do Web searches for bookshops before I got on the plane and then my first act after waking up from my jetlag would be to go and visit one. Over time this got more and more difficult. In my last trip to Atlanta the only bookshops even vaguely in walking distance seemed, according to Google, to be the small bookshop at the uni/conf venue, and the national park shop at the MLK museum.

[-] uis@lemm.ee 1 points 9 months ago

Bar counts as cafe I guess.

and *two* malls.

Lucky. I have not one, not two, but fucking 8 malls! Anthough one of them specializes in construction, second in electronics and furniture and third only in furniture. Who need so much furniture I have no idea.

As you can guess there were no major improvements for last 30 years and a lot of stuff fell in disrepair.

[-] kagan@wandering.shop 1 points 9 months ago

@uis Holy cow! Where are you that there are *eight* malls within a 15-minute walk? (If you don't mind my asking?)

[-] uis@lemm.ee 1 points 9 months ago* (last edited 9 months ago)

Moscow. There is cluster of 6 malls in one place and 3 malls in another. Last mall I did not count in 15-minutes walk distance, but 20 is well enough.

Oh, also I forgot about new mall in place where market was until it mysteriously combusted. Maps say it is 16 minutes walk, but I never walked there. 10 minutes on bike or public transport.

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