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Walking is slow. Walking a mile takes around 20 minutes. If you walk a mile to the transit station at the beginning and walk a mile at the end, that's 40 minute
by TulliusCicero 7y ago
Walking is slow. Walking a mile takes around 20 minutes. If you walk a mile to the transit station at the beginning and walk a mile at the end, that's 40 minutes of travel time before you even factor in the bus/train trip.
Of course, walking is to be encouraged where practical, but it has a very short effective range compared to a bike or scooter. Scooters and bikes drastically extend the effective reach of transit stations, with much less of a downside compared to cars (less polluting, less noisy, less danger for others, less parking space).
- pretendscholar 7y ago>Walking is slow. Walking a mile takes around 20 minutes. Maybe if you are crawling. Thats 3 miles an hour.
- my_usernam3 7y agoFactor in stop lights and other holdups, sounds like a good estimate to me. Now let us be generous and say 15min, thats still an extra 30min thus TulliusCicero's point still stands.
- nkoren 7y agoThat's indeed the average adult walking speed.
- servercobra 7y agoFiguring in traffic lights, this is pretty close, even as a fast walker.
- superturkey650 7y agoHave you ever measured how fast you walk? I walk a couple miles every morning at an okay pace with my dog and I still average about 17 minutes a mile.
- pretendscholar 7y agoIf I'm walking alone I do about a 10 minute mile but I think I walk fairly fast.
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- mikestew 7y agoYou are either measuring incorrectly, or you are fully aware that the vast majority of the population walk nowhere near that fast, as I'm sure you've noticed as you blow by them.
- prawn 7y ago6 mph. First search suggests Olympic race walkers average about 7.7 mph. Another site suggests power walkers max out at 5.7 mph.
- beatgammit 7y agoIf I push it, I can get to my closest bus stop (~1 mile away) in 15 minutes (assuming no waits for traffic, but my legs will be tired. On my bike, it's closer to 5 minutes, less if I push it. If I'm considering taking the bus, you can bet I'll need to factor in getting to the stop. As it stands, taking the bus to my job takes ~40 minutes if I take my bike, 50-60 minutes if I walk, which is really bad compared to my 20 minute commute by car. I'm a fast walker, but I definitely wouldn't consider taking the bus if it meant walking everyday.
- danesparza 7y agoWe can't all be 23 year old marathon runners who shower and change at work.
- powvans 7y agoThere's also the issue of weather. Many of us live in places where it rains, heavily and frequently. Or it's extremely hot and humid and the result of walking is that you arrive at your destination soaked in sweat. I love to get out and walk in my neighborhood whenever possible, but walking even half a mile in the summer heat in Atlanta in work appropriate clothing is going to wreck your appearance.
- ryan_lane 7y agoI used to live in the south (New Orleans) and their idea of work appropriate clothing is absurd for the weather. Long sleeves, ties, etc. Worst part is that no one wants to wear them, so they buy the cheapest, sloppiest looking version of them, which is worse than just letting people dress casually.