• GreenKnight23@lemmy.world
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    25 days ago

    personally I would rather turn a hour long commute across state lines into a four hour long walk.

    think of how thick my calves would be!

      • DFX4509B@lemmy.wtf
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        25 days ago

        That and I was talking more about infrastructure where you could easily walk to places too instead of having to drive everywhere

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        25 days ago

        maybe where you live. closest train station is an hour away from me.

        closest bus stop is an hour away from me

        riding a bicycle would make my hour long commute two hours.

        if I drove to a bus stop and rode a bus the rest of the way to work it would still take me two hours.

        it’s always a black or white solution with you people and you never think of the grey area. dare I say at least 50% of the US population falls into the grey. if a solution fails to accommodate for more than half a population it’s not a solution, it’s just ineffective.

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      24 days ago

      Average walking speed is 4km/h. So in four hours, you’d go 16km. If it takes you an hour to go 16km by car, then you’d literally be faster on a bike, because you can go past traffic without stopping

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        24 days ago

        60mph, takes an hour, 60 miles distance.

        that’s around 97km.

        I guess my math was wrong, at 4km/h it would take me 24 hours, not 4.

        👍 thanks!

        edit: why the downvotes? the math checks out.

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          23 days ago

          Go and look up what the actual average commute speeds are in any city you care to mention. No-one’s travelling at 60mph the entire distance.

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            22 days ago

            you’re right, speeds and distance are variable dependent on multiple external sources. Traffic, weather, time of day, windspeed, direction of travel, temperature.

            should I also account for those or is it ok to just use average values?