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TopicHow walkable is your local area?
adjl
02/21/23 11:06:22 AM
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As far as North American neighbourhoods go, not bad, but there's a lot of room for improvement. There are a couple of grocery, hardware, and drug stores within a 10-minute walk, which I'd call the upper limit for walking for such things, but getting to them involves walking along some fairly busy, pedestrian-unfriendly streets that definitely push into stroad territory (though they do at least have sidewalks, at least when nearby construction projects don't take them over). In theory, I live near a designated bike route, but that bike route has to cross a very busy 4-lane street without a light and has zero actual infrastructure to make it bike-friendly aside from being a relatively narrow street (which discourages through traffic), so it's thoroughly useless except to travel on either side of that street. By and large, it ticks the boxes necessary to claim that it has the bare minimum pedestrian infrastructure, but it's got a long way to go to actually be really pedestrian-friendly, and it's very obviously been designed with cars in mind and everything else as an afterthought.

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