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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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[–] shauna@social.coop 1 points 1 year ago

@ajsadauskas @fuck_cars Great question! I can do all of these in a fifteen minute (ish) walk except:

- a hospital (though I can walk to my doctor's office in 15 min)
- a university (if you count community colleges, I have one about 30 minutes walk away)
- shopping mall, movie theater, and sports arena

Every last one of these is accessible within 20-ish minutes if I use public transit, though.

[–] BenAveling@mastodon.au 1 points 1 year ago

@fuck_cars @ajsadauskas there should be more hospitals than hair dressers/barbers said no one ever.

[–] rusl@mstdn.social 1 points 1 year ago

@ajsadauskas @fuck_cars I can walk to all of these under 15 minutes except five of them that are all near the bottom of the list.

[–] forteller@tutoteket.no 1 points 1 year ago

@ajsadauskas @wesley @fuck_cars They ask about park, but I think they should also ask about running water https://tutoteket.no/@forteller/111931813852899136

[–] deFrisselle@lemmy.sdf.org 1 points 1 year ago
                    Sore feet

#RuralLife

[–] cdamian@rls.social 1 points 1 year ago

@ajsadauskas
Pretty much every place in Barcelona.
Even most villages will fit this, with the exception of the ones that require a large population, like hospitals, sport arena, and universities.
@fuck_cars

[–] JoTamar@aus.social 1 points 1 year ago

@ajsadauskas @fuck_cars if I make it a 20 min radius, then it's everything except sports arena and university, and there are multiples of both not much further than that.

If I keep it strictly to 15 mins, all I lose is the shopping mall and movie theatre.

I live where I live very much because I can have a walkable (slash cyclable slash public transportable) life.

[–] delirious_owl@discuss.online 1 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Oh my god, just imagine if there were hospitals every 15 minutes <3

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[–] benfulton@urbanists.social 1 points 1 year ago

@ajsadauskas @fuck_cars I can get to a gas station.

OK, maybe to a park if you don't require it to have playground equipment 🙂

[–] quoidian@mastodon.online 1 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

@ajsadauskas @fuck_cars
Everything on the list, except for a shopping mall and a movie theatre, is within a twenty minute walk.

The bus route is a three year pilot project - a subsidized shuttle from the regional transit hub [ 1 hr South of us ] to the small city one hr north of us.
No university nor college though highschool has night-school uni credit courses.

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