It’s marginal gains all the way here but genuinely if you’re an omnivore the E-Bike might work out more enviromentally conscious
It’s marginal gains all the way here but genuinely if you’re an omnivore the E-Bike might work out more enviromentally conscious
why would i walk for a whole damn hour when i could bike for 10 minutes and have my joints not hurt?
Do you.
However, most of the time, you wouldn’t need to walk a full hour. Those are the furthest points in the urban landscape I’m imagining.
we already have the idea of 15 minute cities, we shouldn’t downgrade to 60 minutes.
But “15 minute cities” are not “cities that can be wholly walked in 15 minutes,” they’re cities where everything you need for day to day living is within 15 minutes. It’s fine if you have to walk an hour to see like a specialist doctor or to some concert venue or something since you’re not doing that every day. If your grocery store is more than 15 minutes walking though, that’s an issue.
yikes
15 minutes to get to a grocery store is probably too much tbh
The grocery store should be built into the ground level of your building and they should send your groceries up to you with pnuematic tubes.
hell, instead of walking or biking or riding the bus we should just hop in a tube
It’s not that people are expected to walk an hour to see a specialist doctor but that the city is still considered walkable even if you have to drive/use public transport on rare occasions like seeing the specialist doctor twice a year or whatever.
Nah that’s actually important, making people walk for like 15 minutes is very important for overall health. People need to walk, a frictionless existence is horrible.
my knees are fucked up, if i was never obligated to walk that would be cool and reduce my suffering
Historically, urban areas tend to develop around the distance people can travel in a hour.
I’m referencing that pattern of development and stating that we should set the scale to the distance someone can walk in an hour, the slowest form of transportation, rather that privileging faster forms of transportation.
As you already pointed out, for other modes this would be better than a 15 minute city