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snowdriftissue@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

• altphoto@lemmy.today ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

  On the Uber and transport topic, I sometimes get to ride the light rail and I have to drive to the park n ride to leave my car and ride the rail.

  The trip from my home to the park n ride is a quick 10 to 15 minutes by car. By bus it’s 1 to 2 hours. By foot it’s probably a few days.

  The light rail takes me 30 minutes from north king county to Seattle downtown. If I drove there it would take an hour of mostly just sitting in traffic.

  Progress is slow but if there was a light rail from bothell to Kenmore to the I-5 corridor, that would basically eliminate my need for a 40 to $90 Uber. We only pay that if we a traveling. That way we get a car from our house to the link and then easy 30 minutes to the airport.

  The whole Uber thing is great unless there are only a few riders or a few drivers. Plus the cut that goes to Uber is probably stifling innovation. I recall that there’s an open-source Uber system called…

  libretaxi.org

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  • Hupf@feddit.org ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

    a quick 10 to 15 minutes by car. […] By foot it’s probably a few days.

    Just as a raw ballpark estimate. By car could be 50km/h on average, with a walking speed of roughly 5km/h, that’s 10x the time it takes by car, i.e. 2-3 hours.

    A few days usually takes you trough a few adjacent townships. Do you have to take a humongous detour on foot?

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    • bountygiver@lemmy.ml ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

      Or they are so weak they can only walk 30 minutes per day and had to rest until the next day

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      • BigPotato@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

        5km/h is on the low end of the “average” walking speed but waiting at intersections and lights will murder that speed. You could easily be on the upper end of six and then have to wait 5+ minutes at an intersection, bringing you back below a 5.

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      • Hupf@feddit.org ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

        not a pace you’d maintain for hours?

        This is after all the human superpower.

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    • mojofrododojo@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

      just hypothesizing but: the part of the burbs they’re traversing doesn’t have much in the way of sidewalks along the highways, forcing detours along the local trails like the burke gilman.

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    • jumping_redditor@sh.itjust.works ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

      don’t cars usually go at least 65mph?

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      • Hupf@feddit.org ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

        Tops. Waiting at intersections, slowing down for other traffic situations and driving on roads with a lower speed limit drags down that average, as others have mentioned with regards to walking.

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  • doingthestuff@lemy.lol ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

    At my house there are no buses. There are no light rails. There are no sidewalks, no bike lanes. You can walk in the easement of people’s front yards but it’s mostly a ditch, full of water when it’s raining. I live inside the loop highway that runs around my 2+ million population city. Cars are the only option, even most of the homeless have cars here.

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    • mojofrododojo@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

      sounds like a real shithole. texas?

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      • nonfuinoncuro@lemmy.zip ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

        could be anywhere, usa

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  • LuminousLuddite@lemmy.today ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

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    • altphoto@lemmy.today ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

      enatega.com

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  • mojofrododojo@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

    light rail from bothell to Kenmore to the I-5 corridor

    that’ll be st12? 15? lol.

    after the excavate under the mountain of queen anne to connect ballard…

    honestly the real solution is to move out of the sticks, or stop working in downtown.

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