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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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[-] jlm@mastodon.world 1 points 10 months ago

@ajsadauskas @fuck_cars 7 of these are available to me, but the park closes at sundown, I don't have children, hair, or drink outside my home. The only one I use is the bus stop.

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[-] AspieEgg@lemmy.blahaj.zone 1 points 10 months ago

I can’t help but think that this is just a ranking of how much people need these things. Everyone needs a grocery store all of the time, so it makes sense to have one nearby whether or not you use a car to get there. But people don’t need a bar or a shopping mall every day. So people might be more willing to have one a bit further away.

[-] cows_are_underrated@feddit.de 1 points 10 months ago* (last edited 10 months ago)

How many can you get to with a 15 minute walk from your house?

Jokes on you, I live in the countryside and we have a bar/restaurant and 2 Bus stops and that's it.

[-] quoidian@mastodon.online 1 points 10 months ago* (last edited 10 months 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.

[-] delirious_owl@discuss.online 1 points 10 months ago

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

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[-] synae@lemmy.sdf.org 1 points 10 months ago

laughs in San Franciscan

[-] Yerbouti@lemmy.ml 1 points 10 months ago

Linving in.Montreal. Hospital is about 25 walking. No university but one college under 15. I have the mf olympic stadium at a 10 minutes walk lol. Everything elses checks.

[-] pl_woah@lemmy.ml 1 points 10 months ago

Okay, damn I don't have 15 minute access to a "bar"-bar, and the university/sports arenas are just outside that walk

[-] forteller@tutoteket.no 1 points 10 months ago

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

[-] shauna@social.coop 1 points 10 months 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.

[-] notroot@notroot.online 1 points 10 months ago

@ajsadauskas@aus.social @fuck_cars@lemmy.ml I can get to all of those except a hospital and arena, too. Most in much less than 15 min. Granted, I live in a small city with a still vibrant downtown.

Of course, I wouldn't walk right now. It's freezing out there!

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[-] Natanael@slrpnk.net 1 points 10 months ago* (last edited 10 months ago)

I can reach half of them by foot and the other half by public transit in a similar amount of time. Sweden here obviously lol

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