Is a 20 minute walk from the metro train to your door “Long”

[Anonymous]

Consider rain, consider snow, consider what/how much you carry, consider safety.

[Anonymous]

Come mid July, you tell me.

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:No it's not "walkable". You can walk it in a pinch but you aren't going to be walking it commonly enough to make it a part of your day without thinking.

Are you missing a limb or have other health issues? Or just fat and out of shape with no intentions of living a healthy life style?

You don’t need to be rude. Just because people can walk 20 minutes each way doesn’t mean that they want to as part of a regular commute. Some people have kids they want to spend time with instead or demanding jobs such that an extra 40 minutes out of their day cuts into their leisure time.

I suspect this troll bait but I’ll bite.

So your logic is that people would rather burn hydrocarbons for 5-6 minutes more time with their kids; deal with traffic/etc than walk 15 minutes to mass transit due to their demanding jobs?

Then what? Drive to the gym or orange theory with the girls on the weekend ; maybe post OT memosas?

We cannot have it both ways.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:No it's not "walkable". You can walk it in a pinch but you aren't going to be walking it commonly enough to make it a part of your day without thinking.

Are you missing a limb or have other health issues? Or just fat and out of shape with no intentions of living a healthy life style?

You don’t need to be rude. Just because people can walk 20 minutes each way doesn’t mean that they want to as part of a regular commute. Some people have kids they want to spend time with instead or demanding jobs such that an extra 40 minutes out of their day cuts into their leisure time.

I suspect this troll bait but I’ll bite.

So your logic is that people would rather burn hydrocarbons for 5-6 minutes more time with their kids; deal with traffic/etc than walk 15 minutes to mass transit due to their demanding jobs?

Then what? Drive to the gym or orange theory with the girls on the weekend ; maybe post OT memosas?

We cannot have it both ways.

Or take the bus?

[Anonymous]

I wouldn’t call .75 mile “short”, but I think it’s fair to call it “walkable”.

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:No it's not "walkable". You can walk it in a pinch but you aren't going to be walking it commonly enough to make it a part of your day without thinking.

Are you missing a limb or have other health issues? Or just fat and out of shape with no intentions of living a healthy life style?

You don’t need to be rude. Just because people can walk 20 minutes each way doesn’t mean that they want to as part of a regular commute. Some people have kids they want to spend time with instead or demanding jobs such that an extra 40 minutes out of their day cuts into their leisure time.

I suspect this troll bait but I’ll bite.

So your logic is that people would rather burn hydrocarbons for 5-6 minutes more time with their kids; deal with traffic/etc than walk 15 minutes to mass transit due to their demanding jobs?

Then what? Drive to the gym or orange theory with the girls on the weekend ; maybe post OT memosas?

We cannot have it both ways.

Or take the bus?

What are you not understanding? People need to pick their kids up from daycare. A 20 minute walk each way means that it’s too far to take kids on a daily basis so you would need to drive. Even if you spent 30 minutes in traffic with your kids that would be time spent with them.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:We listed our home as short distance to metro. Straight line on a map it is .51 miles.

Actual time to walk from doors opening in station to our front door is a 20 minute walk.
Some realtors in pre-view thought it was “far”.

Is there a standard now? Under 10 minutes people consider walkable?

My google shows for 0.5 mile 11 minute walk

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:No it's not "walkable". You can walk it in a pinch but you aren't going to be walking it commonly enough to make it a part of your day without thinking.

Are you missing a limb or have other health issues? Or just fat and out of shape with no intentions of living a healthy life style?

You don’t need to be rude. Just because people can walk 20 minutes each way doesn’t mean that they want to as part of a regular commute. Some people have kids they want to spend time with instead or demanding jobs such that an extra 40 minutes out of their day cuts into their leisure time.

I suspect this troll bait but I’ll bite.

So your logic is that people would rather burn hydrocarbons for 5-6 minutes more time with their kids; deal with traffic/etc than walk 15 minutes to mass transit due to their demanding jobs?

Then what? Drive to the gym or orange theory with the girls on the weekend ; maybe post OT memosas?

We cannot have it both ways.

Yes, absolutely. Choosing between a five minute driving commute and a 20 minute walk, I will drive - especially because once I walk home I have to drive back the other way to pick up my kids.

And while I don't belong to a gym, yes I work out after the kids are asleep because they are only awake for a few non-work hours and I want that time with them.

[Anonymous]

I don't understand why you are doing it as a door to door measure rather than from your front door to the top escalator. You can't control whether someone walks down the escalators or stands, waits forever for the awful metro elevators, etc. Measure it on a map as distance between your house and metro and that is good enough.

I consider 20 minutes walkable but it's my outer limit for a daily commuting walk given the crap weather we get here. I did it for years in another city and it was fine. Not fun when raining or hot but doable. From my current house it's a 10-minute walk and it's great. We do it daily rain or shine with 2 kids, 1 of whom walks, the other is in a stroller. A ton of people from my neighborhood walk to metro and many of them have longer walks than we do as they're coming from further in to the neighborhood.

[Anonymous]

Maybe electric scooters like the Lyft ones will proliferate and even a mile won’t seem so long any more.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Op said 14 minutes to station. Is america now walk-e society that we can’t handle a 15 minute walk? That is disconcerting.

OP was lying, unless you can phase through walls like the X-men.

[Anonymous]

We looked exclusively for homes with short walk to the metro. 20 min is about a mile walk and in no way short. We ended up with a 5 min walk. Now that’s short

[Anonymous]

Listen, GGW are zealots about public transit and urban planning, and definitely want to reduce hydrocarbons, and they consider 0.5mile the walkshed of a metro station.

https://ggwash.org/view/35578/map-a-half-mile-walk-to-metro

So OP your 0.6 mile station walk was already far, that’s why you have the disconnect.

And I bet you never took metro in either place.

[Anonymous]

I think the metro station in question matters as well. Tacking a 20 minute walk onto a 30-40 minute ride to a suburban station is different than a 20 minute walk to/from a more centralized station.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:I think the metro station in question matters as well. Tacking a 20 minute walk onto a 30-40 minute ride to a suburban station is different than a 20 minute walk to/from a more centralized station.

That's true. I live a 15 min walk from the metro but then only 2 stops for work so I absolutely consider that a reasonable, walkable commute. I think my commute is awesome actually. A 5 min walk would be even better but the cost of my house would be 33% higher so, meh.