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What can you get to within a 15-minute walk of your house? (mediacdn.aus.social)
submitted 1 year ago by ajsadauskas@aus.social to c/fuck_cars@lemmy.ml
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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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[–] tshirtman@mas.to 1 points 1 year ago

@ajsadauskas @fuck_cars i think i only "miss".
- a bank
- a gas station

though i didn't look for them as i don't need them.

(I live slightly to the south of Amsterdam, NL).

[–] 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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[–] Deceptichum@sh.itjust.works 1 points 1 year ago

I’ve got all those things in my suburb of Melbourne! Well the hospital might be more like 20-25.

[–] Yerbouti@lemmy.ml 1 points 1 year 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.

[–] urlyman@mastodon.social 1 points 1 year ago

@ajsadauskas

In the south of Portsmouth, UK, all of the majority shoulds bar a gas station and a hospital, and I am *fine* with that. The hospital is 5 miles away.

And for the minority shoulds, I can get to a bar. And the others are just a bit further.

@fuck_cars

[–] pl_woah@lemmy.ml 1 points 1 year ago

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

[–] cows_are_underrated@feddit.de 1 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year 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 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.

[–] 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

[–] ja_herre@kolektiva.social 1 points 1 year ago

@ajsadauskas
I have all of that within a 350 meters radius from my home but a hospital, a shopping mall, a sports arena and a movie theater. Although i have 3 regular theaters within that same radius, and the university being that close is, admitedly, a bit of luck.
That's downtown Buenos Aires for you.
In 15 minutes i have multiple options for hospital and movie theaters, but still no luck for sports arenas and shopping malls. Although being far away from any shopping mall is actually for the better imo.

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[–] 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.

[–] werefreeatlast@lemmy.world 1 points 1 year ago

Imagine if that gas station ⛽ could also be a kindergarten 😁! Your neighborhood would totally rock!

[–] 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 🙂

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