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)
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.
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
If they’re building infill density, they should also build frequent public transit. Even something as simple as dedicated bus lanes would be enough.
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 😅
I walk 3.3 miles to and from work
In that kind of traffic? You’d be trampled to death
In the middle of the street? Sure. But best part of Lambofeeties is their ability to go places cars typically can’t, like the sidewalk or the side of the road
That’s great in walkable areas (which I want more of), but there are some parts of America that are designed for cars only. There is no sidewalk, and the lanes go all the way to the edge of the road which may have a fence or wall for some sections.
The US has gone so far into the “freedom” of cars that they’re taking away the freedom to use alternatives.
You are the traffic
Four words of complete murder, well played 😆👌
Thake the bike! Really! At 45 Minutes for 3 Miles, even walking would be faster.
Yeah if traffic is always jammed you can just ride on the hard shoulder, traffic is slow anyway so not that dangerous.
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.
This comment is way too reasonable to exist in this community
That’s not even designed to be a bike lane it’s just the edge of the road
That’s not even designed to be a bike lane it’s just the edge of the road
The traffic is moving at walking speed. It’s definitely not dangerous to ride bike there…
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.
I use an electric bike, so I could easily go to 30km/h and while the city has a limit of 50, I usually go at pace because of the amount of transit.
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.
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.
Yes, even get the developers to pay a contribution as part of the permit.
I get the impression - or what seems most likely given their ridiculous situation of driving at average of walking pace - that they’ll be asking instead for one more lane, and it won’t be dedicated for bus or bike or tram.
At the stage they seem to have reached I think it seems quite fair to ridicule the whole city and everyone who has had the power to vote there for the past generation which presumably includes the ooop.
That is just a narrow shoulder, you’re asking to die riding a bike on that.
The obvious solution is to put your bike on your car’s bike rack, pull out across both lanes of traffic, then take your bike off your car and ride from there.
/s just in case
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.
If those were there I’d probably get to work in 15 minutes lol
I get along with both dogs & bees. The three of us will join powers with the wasp clan and reek havoc on the CEOs!
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.
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?
I walk fast cause I’m 2 m tall and have long legs, but my ex used to walk a Pokemon go route with me that was 1.6 miles and it took us just about an hour to go through it and back. She was not very tall and had no problem keeping up.
5km in an hour is a brisk walk. In 45 minutes it’s probably closer to a jog. It’s not super human but it’s not a normal walking pace.
It might be a challenge specially in the worse of summer/winter.
why did you guys break up
Complicated, but we’re still friendly.
if you had to adjudicate, who was the driver of the separation?
Me most likely.
15 minute mile is my “walking while listening to fast music” fast pace. It is definitely a brisk pace but this is not even close to jogging. And 3.5 miles is my normal distance.
And even then, the point is more that if you are moving at 4 mph in your car, the car is doing almost no work. 4mph for a semi in shape human is perfectly reasonable to walk, so if that is all your car is providing you, it isn’t worth it.
Around 5,5 km from me to my Grandpa on the other side of my city with pedestrian lights etc. Takes me around 45-50 minutes. Fast walker, around average height for an EU man.
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…
As a 5’ person, 3 mph is a sweaty pace for me even in cold weather. Someone with long legs might find 5 mph easy but I’d be running.
With no sidewalk, breathing fumes the whole way
WE’RE ALL BREATHING THE FUMES.
If anything, it’s worse in the middle of the lane jammed up another car’s exhaust. You think your car protects you from pollution? It exposes you to pollution!
Where do you think the air inside of your car is coming from?
I guess I am lucky I live somewhere not in a city, but my downtown area does have a sidewalk.
A decent amount of Americans are not in good enough shape to walk 3 miles in any amount of time.
So you’re saying they need the exercise? Another good reason to just walk.
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.
especially if you get ticketed for biking on the sidewalk… ShArE THe rOaD
In many places you can bicycle on the sidewalk, provided that you yield to pedestrians.
3 miles = 4.82Km for the rest is us.
So ~50 minutes by foot.
less if you don’t mind sweating
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If they only had one more lane…
A bike lane, perhaps?
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
Honestly I’m so glad I started biking to my high school all those years ago, it conditioned me to view biking as a natural solution for my daily commutes.
And how many of the cars in this photo are going to sit in this same traffic to the gym after work (and try to get the closest parking spot)? If 10 - 20% of them were able to and chose to bike or walk, it would be a more pleasant experience for everyone.
I was gonna say, ride a fuckin bike bitch.
That’s a gutter. But then again, most US bike lanes are just rebranded gutters. I’d bike it.
So… they’re making more housing that is closer to your job? Move there. Now you have a shorter commute. Congrats.
