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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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[-] UndercoverUlrikHD@programming.dev 4 points 9 months ago* (last edited 9 months ago)

Other than the primary school (~20 minutes) and the physical bank, which we barely have any left off in Norway, they're all within 15 minutes.

- Trondheim

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[-] KSPAtlas@sopuli.xyz 4 points 9 months ago

As someone who lives within 15 minutes ot a sports arena, i agree with not having one

[-] ramirezmike@programming.dev 4 points 9 months ago

I live within a 15 minute walk of a sports arena. It's not so bad, it's neat to see all the community fill up the streets on big game days. I walked to see the red hot chili peppers last year, that was pretty cool.

[-] nifty@lemmy.world 4 points 9 months ago* (last edited 9 months ago)

My 15-min walk list:

  1. restaurants/bars/cafes
  2. grocery store
  3. ~~some kind of tech store, like Microcenter but smaller with less items because you wouldn’t want a big ass Microcenter near you~~ game/hobby store (trading cards, figurines etc.)
  4. a park/open air theater or amphitheater
  5. gym options (Pilates, yoga, weights etc)
  6. pharmacy
  7. day care
  8. some clothing stores
  9. hairdresser/barber/nails
  10. bus/train stop

I sincerely disagree that post offices and banks have to be within walking distance when we have mailboxes and online banking. Also, I’d like to be able to drive my car out with ease to get to other cities or states if needed. I assume 15min city urban planning accounts for the desire to long distance travel at will.

I am also not sure it’s a good idea to have schools because schools are kinda big and require lots of parking space.

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[-] 31337@sh.itjust.works 4 points 9 months ago

Surprised shooting ranges aren't on this list.

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[-] CorruptDropbear@aus.social 4 points 9 months ago

@ajsadauskas @fuck_cars At the corner of my road, I have:
- Bakery (that took over the shops left and right because they kept winning awards)
- Pharmacy
- Post Office
- Women's Hairdresser
- Pizza, Chinese and Indian
- GP (although always booked out)
- Petrol Station chain which sells marked-up cornerstore stuff, don't get milk there it's 6 bucks

[-] danafest@lemm.ee 4 points 9 months ago

Shopping mall is the only one on the list I can't walk to in 15 min or less. Love living in a walkable city, it's so rare in America these days.

[-] queermunist@lemmy.ml 4 points 9 months ago

My sister is fortunate enough to live close to a lot of this stuff.

And there are no sidewalks 😂

[-] AA5B@lemmy.world 4 points 9 months ago* (last edited 9 months ago)

I have 11, outside Boston, but where is the train station in the survey?

  • movie theater is 25 minutes fast walk, although past my threshold so I’ve always driven.
  • why the eff would I want to walk to a gas station? If they mean convenience store, I have two even closer
  • I prefer NOT to be near the things with large crowds: hospital, university, arena, mall
  • hospital question is out of date, should really distinguish hospital from urgent care or doctors office

I lived near Fenway Park once, and it was horrible. Do not recommend. The positive was I could goto a game after work and look for half price tickets after they start, but freely choose not to go if I didn’t get my price. But the noise, the mess, and the crowds making things just unuseable was not worth it.

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[-] jjjalljs@ttrpg.network 4 points 9 months ago

I live in Brooklyn. Almost all of these are well covered. It's pretty great. Hospital, mall, and sports arena are a little outside a 15 minute walk.

I think "places to see live music" should be on the list. There's one by me but it tends to be for bigger acts. If I want to see a smaller band play I usually need to travel a bit.

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[-] DudeImMacGyver@sh.itjust.works 4 points 9 months ago* (last edited 9 months ago)

A lot of stuff actually, but I'm pretty damn lucky to like in a place that's somewhat walkable and not a death sentence to ride a bike in.

[-] CurtAdams@urbanists.social 4 points 9 months ago

@ajsadauskas @fuck_cars 15 minute walk: Park, elementary school, bus stop, restaurant, gas station.

15-30 minutes: (I do walk sometime but usually bike): Grocery store, pharmacy, bank, barber.

I can easily bike, though not walk, to all of the rest except a university (which seems an absurd ask for a 15-minute neighborhood).

[-] Poem_for_your_sprog@lemmy.world 4 points 9 months ago

I can get to....more houses!

[-] RBWells@lemmy.world 3 points 9 months ago* (last edited 9 months ago)

I'm in one of the less walkable, more car centric cities, but have made a lifelong effort to live where I can walk to things and have a few bus routes nearby. The buses have been starved and some come only every hour now but I can walk to:

Work

Cafe

Corner store

Bank (but I bank online)

Doctor and dentist (dentist more like half hour walk but sidewalk all the way) also every specialist doctor

A pot dispensary

Drugstore

Several restaurants

And believe it or not, a stadium.

No bar :(

ETA: Grocery, yes but not on the path to/from work so wildly inconvenient, and I can still walk to a comic shop but it's on the other side of the river now and while the bridge has sidewalks there is no barrier between cars and the sidewalk, it's more like a pedestrian lane in the road!

[-] phorq@lemmy.ml 3 points 9 months ago

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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[-] maegul@hachyderm.io 3 points 9 months ago

@ajsadauskas @fuck_cars

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

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[-] TomasHelleberg@mastodon.nu 3 points 9 months ago* (last edited 9 months ago)

@ajsadauskas in Umeå Sweden near campus I fall short of bank office whatever that is.. a movie theater and a gas station (it closed).

Such a list should have more focus on work places.. not only have "service", if we want o limit traffic :) Even though hospital and university has a lot of staff.

Office complex, hotels, branches of government etc.

@fuck_cars

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[-] NigelFrobisher@aussie.zone 3 points 9 months ago

Where is “cricket pitch”? That and pub would come top where I’m from.

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[-] trantion@masto.ai 3 points 9 months ago

@ajsadauskas @fuck_cars I love how the majority think you should have to drive to a bar

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