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Re: Walking distance

[(Anonymous)]

If I'm walking around where I live, it depends on the direction. During the summer, when it's light for a long time, I sometimes do four miles to work, work five to eight hours, and then turn around and walk home. It's gently hilly for part of the way, but there's no major thoroughfares to cross. Like the OP, I have to factor in "critter fuss time." Also flower smelling time--and depending on the time of year, fruit picking time. My normal job is about a mile away, so I walk at least two miles a day most days. I'm slow, so it takes me about 20 minutes each way. I don't have a car and there are a bunch of grocery stores pretty close, so I schlep my groceries and other shopping home, too.

If I'm going to be walking someplace I haven't been before, I plug coordinates into google maps, get walking directions, and use that as a guesstimate. I don't care about hilly terrain unless I'm going to be carrying something heavy. There are places I'll take a bus to rather than walk, even though the distance isn't that far--under ten miles, say... but I can only safely walk five miles in one direction where I live; the other three all have freeways of some sort in the way, no sidewalks, and crazy drivers. On major holidays that people use as an excuse to get drunk (4th of July, New Years, etc) I avoid the local downtown area because it gets pretty crazy, and I won't just wander around after about nine at night no matter what time of year it is. If there's somewhere I have to be at night or I have a class that gets out later than that, I just make sure my phone's charged and I'm wearing good shoes I can run in.

The last time I had any money to spare for a vacation I went to England with friends. We stayed just outside London in a flat where the nearest tube station was two miles away, and took the tube into central London every day and just wandered around. I'd bought a new pair of boots before we left, because since we were still pretty poor, we went in the middle of winter. After two and a half weeks of walking, I'd worn through the three inch thick soles. When I went back to work people kept asking if I'd been on a diet. I'd eaten like a pig the whole time I was there. I wish my city was as pedestrian-friendly as most of London. The weather's better where I am, but it's still a drag to get around without a car.

Re: Walking distance

[ansela_jonla]

UK cities are ridiculously pedestrian friendly compared to the average American city. Almost every road has a pavement (sidewalk), there are pedestrian lights at almost every major junction, as well as at popular crossing points. Where there aren't lights there are often other types of crossing instead.

Heck, there are even streets entirely for pedestrians (with some allowances for service and emergency traffic) in most city centres, usually where the shops are thickest. Do you have pedestrianised streets in the US?