I use an electric stand up scooter and a full face helmet. 3 miles is 20 minutes.
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That's a 40 minute walk if you walk fast. Get a bike and it's probably 20 minutes (at least I tend to cycle around twice as fast as I walk)
Fuck Reddit and Fuck Spez.
I dont think Reddit or Spez have any involvement with OP's traffic issues.
But maybe I'm just not informed. 🤔
It's obligatory at this point
Is it though?
If they're building infill density, they should also build frequent public transit. Even something as simple as dedicated bus lanes would be enough.
The Republican shithole burb I live in is determined to bulldoze what little open space remains, and stack more apartments on top of overpriced apartments. No improvements of course. I have to slog 4 miles to the nearest shopping, and if I had to take the bus? A simple errand could run four hours.
You are the traffic
Four words of complete murder, well played 😆👌
As much as I love a good Ten Minutes Hate directed at some carbrain too lazy to walk 4km, it seems I'm going to have to be the one to point out that it's entirely possible that this person's route to work is far too dangerous to walk, let alone cycle.
Just look at that strip of paint some of you are calling a bike lane. Maybe you would be willing to risk your life squeezing amongst the monster trucks on a bike, but I certainly wouldn't. And walk? Breathing all those tailpipe fumes for 30-60min? Hell no. This person may well be looking at 4km of car-exclusive road to get to work.
So instead of ripping into this poor soul for being lazy, maybe we should be considering the very real possibility that their options are limited by poor infrastructure/planning/politics.
it’s entirely possible that this person’s route to work is far too dangerous to walk, let alone cycle.
If only there was some kind of enlongated multi-passanger vehicle they could use
proceeds to wait 45 minutes in traffic AND 15 minutes additional for the bus
It's funny, because I cut ten minutes off my thirty minute commute via the HOV lane by carpooling, and I see plenty of Metro buses on the same route.
How do you know there is?
And if there is I don't see a dedicated lane.
I would still bus on principle because I'm a masochist and stubborn. But I get it when people don't if the infrastructure isn't good.
Not Just Bikes has pointed out in numerous videos places where the distance is walkable/bikeable but totally unsafe to walk or bike. Carbrain infrastructure is not just bad because it centers cars, but because it excludes every other option.
Very sarcastic comment, but if the traffic is bad enough then it becomes safe to cycle again because of how little anyone in a car can move.
Actually, that's a pretty good strategy. I quite like cycling around in heavy traffic for exactly this reason.
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This comment is way too reasonable to exist in this community
The traffic is moving at walking speed. It's definitely not dangerous to ride bike there...
That's not even designed to be a bike lane it's just the edge of the road
The aggravating part isn't not the lazy, but their complaint that they are building more density surrounding it's area. A less carbrained person would see that as an opportunity to push for bike lanes and public transit.
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3 miles over 45 minutes. You can literally walk briskly faster than that!
A bicycle would make him feel like Superman
Not if there are dogs, or bees. Or the dogs with bees in their mouths and when they bark, they shoot bees at you.
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Honestly the number of people in that thread claiming that walking 3 miles in 45mins was some super human ability was shocking. I’d bet good money that they have never actually walked more than 5 mins anywhere other than maybe when shopping.
3 mi in 45 min? That's about 6 or 7 kph. That's a brisk walking pace. And a bicycle easily does twice, maybe even thrice that.
Ok, wait. I regularly take a 1.5km (close to a mile) path uphill that I need 20min to walk (and people say I'm a fast walker). How are you all walking so fast? I need to wait for trafic semaphores and stuff, but how can walking almost 5km (more than 3 times my path) take only twice as long?
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Medan human walking speed is ~4 MPH* so, actually, yeah pretty much half of people aren’t going to be able to do 3 miles in 45 minutes right off the bat. That’s before we take into account crosswalks and other walking hazards and that obesity and sedentary lifestyles are on the rise.
* I was taught 5 MPH but I found multiple sources that listed 5, 4, and 3 MPH so yeah…
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I walk 3.3 miles to and from work, 3 days a week, takes less than an hour, even if I had a car I'd do that over a 45 minute drive, thas crazy business
This doesn’t really look like a place with great infrastructure for walking, though 😅
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That's a bicycle distance.
Hell that's a walk distance for many of us.
It would be if decent bike infrastructure existed.
It probably wouldn't be super pleasant biking on the sidewalk in that picture in the dark... But it might be more pleasant than sitting in the car right there for 45 minutes.
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Looks like a bike lane right there.
The amount of car brain in people is insane. I used to live in an apartment literally two buildings down from my work. Could see it from my window. My roommate still drove every single day. Dude lived in the gym so not like he couldn't do the walk
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