What can you get to within a 15-minute walk of your house?
A recent YouGov survey asked Americans what they think they should be able to get to within a 15-minute walk of their house.
Of these choices, I can currently walk to all of them from my apartment, aside from a university (no biggie, I’m not currently studying, although there is a Tafe within walking distance), a hospital, and a sports arena.
How many can you get to with a 15 minute walk from your house?
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Im confused about (from the poll)
Believe it or not, some people don’t drink alcohol, and don’t go to bars, therefore don’t want or need a bar near their house.
And I’m not sure why they would need a gas station in a town designed for people who don’t have cars 😆
I think the argument here was that even if you yourself don’t drink, if the bar is not within walking distance, you are still pushing others around you who do drink to drive drunk as that will be their only alternative.
The question is if your local government picked a 15 minute walk as a target for amenities, so the idea would be that they would do things to encourage that these things are within a 15 minute walk to all their residents. So saying yes would mean you want the government to step in to encourage there being a bar close to all residents. That sounds incredibly silly to me.
But the local goverment can prevent bars in strip malls, on strides with no walking or transit access.
The town needs to make the downtown walkable, and ideally accessable by walking. The rest is just local businesses buying / renting store fronts, may be a local pub, cafe, fruit stand, toy store ect.
Now maybe there is an overlap between what i considered a bar/pub and what those replying are calling a resturaunt since i want something like i have here in Madison NJ: a few pubs to get dinner and a pint 15min walk into town… Yes this is at bar seating because im on my own… But they all have dining rooms, and casual fare with much of the clients being families of all ages just having a meal in town.
I drink alcohol but I rarely go to bars, so it’s also not important to me.
this is so common in non coastal cities in north america, the transit is terrible and all the bars are far away… imo one of the reasons my home province has one of the worst rates of drunk driving.