I have 11, outside Boston, but where is the train station in the survey?

• movie theater is 25 minutes fast walk, although past my threshold so I’ve always driven.
• why the eff would I want to walk to a gas station? If they mean convenience store, I have two even closer
• I prefer NOT to be near the things with large crowds: hospital, university, arena, mall
• hospital question is out of date, should really distinguish hospital from urgent care or doctors office

I lived near Fenway Park once, and it was horrible. Do not recommend. The positive was I could goto a game after work and look for half price tickets after they start, but freely choose not to go if I didn’t get my price. But the noise, the mess, and the crowds making things just unuseable was not worth it.

Live in Rio, from this list i have almost everything in a 15 minute walk distance the only exceptions are

• shopping mall(30 min walking)
• public hospital (used to have but it closed, now the closest is 30 min walking)
• Movie theater(30 min walking)
• Sports arena(1h walking)
• Public University(2h walking)

Although i have a lot of services close, it is still a chore to go walking because a lot of the walking is uphill, i wish there was more public infrastructure to help people move up and down like trams and stuff like that, way back them the city uses to have trams everywhere, but now there’s almost none.

What isn’t on the list, but i absolutely didn’t want around, was an neopentecostal church. Unfortunately, they are everywhere and super loud and disrespectful.

Seeing that those surveys exist does not really motivate me to ever visit the US besides the big cities. I literally have most of these in 15 to 30 minutes by foot or public transport. Wow.

All but 5: grocery story, mall, university, sports stadium, hospital

I lived in the suburbs once that required a 1 hour bike ride just to get to the nearest bus stop. That place was miserable

There’s no university or sports arena within 15 minutes of me but, the bus station will take me to either and I could walk to the sports arena if I really felt like it. I think the movie theater might be closer to a 20 minute walk but that’s still reasonable.

What can you get to within a 15-minute walk of your house?

Plz don’t dox me. Based on Google Maps.

I pity the fool who tries to do all of this with their car, though. Sure, you can drive to these places within 15 minutes, but then you’ll spend half an hour looking for a free parking spot or paying several euros per hour. Except for the grocery store, I guess, that’s got a parking lot that’ll fit 20 cars.

Weird situations I’ve found:

• It’s quicker to walk to the bank than to take the bus. A weird combination of hub-and-spoke bus routes and the place where I live.
• The elementary school and day care centers aren’t close to each other at all, unless the schools also offer day care (I didn’t look into this)
• Public transport isn’t geared towards bar visitors. Buses stop around midnight, so if you’re going out drinking, you’ll be in for a long walk (or just take your bike and hope you don’t get caught)
• For how few people I see in parks, they’re remarkably well-connected.
• I know trains are just a meme in America, but I would’ve at least expected mention of trams or a metro.
• Who the hell walks to a gas station?
• Amenities I’d miss based on solely these topics: city hall, train station, parking garage, GP, playground, swimming pool.

I think stuffing all of these services into 15 minutes of walking is quite difficult and inefficient. I think designing cities around (electric) bikes is a lot better than designing everything to be within walking distance. This will also allow for basic road infrastructure so trucks can supply stores and people can get to parking garages for out-of-city parking in case they need to go anywhere.

This is actually a pretty good idea for a web app of some kind. Grab OpenStreetMap’s data and map out what areas are covered within several time windows (5-15-30-60 minutes) to find the best places to live. Maybe calculate a score of some kind.

I have every one of those within 15 minutes by bike, except the university, which is about 30 minutes away by bike.

However, our cycling infrastructure does not give you the most convenient/fastest way to those destinations, so I can see how some would just drive.

A few changes, and this could be easily fixed.

This poll shows a population not really taking the question seriously.

Why should a gas station be more accessible on foot than a local pub?

The fact that it’s called a gas station rather than convenience store on a survey about walking is somewhat disappointing.

@ajsadauskas @fuck_cars I have all of these in my neighborhood (except a sports arena, though I have one that’s 15 minutes away biking). Of course, I don’t live in the United States.

An auto repair place is something that people don’t think about. It’s great being able to drop off your car and walk your ass home and then wait for them to call you.

How is bar so low?? Do people want drunk drivers? Because that’s how you get drunk drivers

As an Englishman, I counted 8 of these.

I can’t get to any of those within a 15-minute walk from my house because I don’t live in a city. I apologize for my lack of urban living.