I used Google maps to get these values. I’m using Google’s estimated walking distance and will also include Google’s estimated walking time.
- Convenience store
- Distance: 800 m
- Time: 11 minutes
- Chain supermarket
- Distance: 1.1 km
- Time: 15 minutes
- Bus stop
- Distance: 230 m
- Time: 3 minutes
- Park:
- Distance: 450 m
- Time: 7 minutes
- Big supermarket (Walmart)
- Distance: 1.7 km
- Time: 23 minutes
- Library
- Distance: 2.7 km
- Time: 37 minutes
- Train station (local light rail)
- Distance: 3.1 km
- Time: 43 minutes
I’m in Utah somewhere south of Salt Lake City (the state capitol). The numbers aren’t great, but they’re far better than some places I’ve lived here. As a kid, I remember biking for 20+ minutes to make it to a small supermarket.
EDIT: as others have said, my paths can be quite bendy at times, but it’s different than many suburbs in the US. Salt Lake City (and, by extension, most of the valley that it’s in) is built on a fairly rigorous grid system. We have lots of straight roads with large blocks (in some cases, it can be 1-2 km between lights and crosswalks). We don’t have too many ratfucked suburban mazes, so the walkability problem here is primarily due to sprawl and a dearth of crosswalks.
I have a better idea. Instead of stealing bodily autonomy from women, Russia could stop fighting a war that has claimed the lives of at least half a million of their citizens. They could stop enacting policies that result in young people fleeing their country. They could embrace immigration and work to improve the happiness and social mobility of their populace.
What Russia is doing here is not a good-faith effort to fix their population issues.