You are the traffic
Four words of complete murder, well played 😆👌
Knocking out my daily jog on the way to or from work would be amazing.
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.
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
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.
Oh, trust me, I know. My mornin walk to work has plenty of stretches where I am in the middle of a, thankfully not too busy at the time, road, but still, faced with a 45 minute drive or a 55 minute walk on the road, imma inconvenience others and play on the fact that no one wants to hit the 6’ guy in a kilt as much as I can. Far from perfect, and I have to keep me head on a swivel, but yeah
This doesn’t really look like a place with great infrastructure for walking, 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.
Looks like a bike lane right there.
I was gonna say, ride a fuckin bike bitch.
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
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.
That’s a gutter. But then again, most US bike lanes are just rebranded gutters. I’d bike it.
3 miles = 4.82Km for the rest is us.
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So ~50 minutes by foot.
less if you don’t mind sweating
3 miles over 45 minutes. You can literally walk briskly faster than that!
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.
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.
Yeah my sustainable walking pace is around 4.5kph on flat terrain. And I’m a pretty quick walker. Which is around 2.5mph. 3 miles is probably a 70 minute walk for me.
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.
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.
A bicycle would make him feel like Superman
With no sidewalk, breathing fumes the whole way
I guess I am lucky I live somewhere not in a city, but my downtown area does have a sidewalk.
Where do you think the air inside of your car is coming from?
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!
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!
If they only had one more lane…
A bike lane, perhaps?
So… they’re making more housing that is closer to your job? Move there. Now you have a shorter commute. Congrats.
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?
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get a horse
Yep, my area is like that. Long lines starting at 2:30 every day, lasting until at least 7. All along the entire route, there are new, enormous complexes going up on every square inch of open ground, and almost no road widening. When they do try to increase the infrastructure, by the time it’s finished, it’s already built up too much for the new roads to handle.
They’re building high density transit to go with the high density housing, right? Cars are not high density transit.
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.
