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30 minutes for a half-mile? Is that the round-trip time or something?

• silversconfused 7y ago
  Potentially that amount of time would allow carrying some groceries with a screaming toddler in tow.
• DoreenMichele 7y ago
  No, that's little old ladies in street clothes hobbling as fast as they can. People walking as a mode of transit aren't competing with joggers for who gets there first. These times are for planning purposes. Of course, it's okay if you walk faster than that. But planning departments need to look at "Who will actually walk this?" And the answer is "Ordinary people will walk it if it isn't over 30 minutes, but 15 minutes is better. And that works at these distances." You see the most traffic from establishments within a quarter mile, and some additional traffic within the half mile radius but outside the quarter mile. It drops off steeply outside of the half mile radius.
  • asark 7y ago
    Ah, makes sense. 30 minutes is a very slowly walked city mile for me (25min at a casual, unhurried pace, shaving a couple minutes off that for a 22-23min time with a bit more bounce in the step but still not jogging or even speed-walking) so I figured it was either round-trip or the slowest speed anyone capable of walking anywhere at all would attain—seems it's the latter.
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