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"I walked from the Mountain View train station to the Googleplex once. Nobody does that twice." Why's that? Long, boring, no footpaths, dangerous?
by prawn 3y ago
"I walked from the Mountain View train station to the Googleplex once. Nobody does that twice."
Why's that? Long, boring, no footpaths, dangerous?
- GrifMD 3y agoI looked it up out curiosity, it's over 2 miles along a major road that crosses a major freeway. There is a suburban route that has a dedicated bike lane crossing of the freeway (101). Yikes.
- prawn 3y agoThis sounds exactly like the sort of walk my wife and I end up doing when abroad. "Doesn't look that far on the map. Let's just walk it, get our steps up. It'll be fun!" End up choking on fumes the entire way...
- wnissen 3y agoSuburban pedestrian infrastructure in all of California is bad. Maybe not Florida bad, but pretty bad. Intersections are set up for vehicles, pedestrians have to wait a long time and cars are going to be zipping around the corner without looking to see if anyone is in the crosswalk. Motor fumes, risk of collision, and it takes forever. I love to walk in urban and wilderness settings, but it's not too much of an exaggeration to say that people walking in the suburbs can't afford an alternative.
- aledalgrande 3y agoIt's an absolute random walk in residential streets and across a highway in a land not built to walk. So probably all of that.
- OkayPhysicist 3y agoIt's ~an hour long walk.