No, that’s way too far just for the library. I’d do that for pleasure but right now I’m time poor and can’t afford that for a general task.

What kind of path takes 75min for 3.7km? In a normal environment, this should be doable in 40 minutes.

I wouldn’t hesitate to walk that far for a library, but realistically I’d take my cruiser bike for that distance. I’ve heard people tend to cite around 15-20 minutes as the maximum walk length that is considered “walkable,” but I’ve often chosen walking longer distances than that even when other options were available. For dense urban areas, I’d rather walk that take a bus unless it’s really far. Sometimes I get passed up by the same bus 5 or 6 times along the way. I agree with others who have said that time estimate sounds way long.

no, but i would bike 10 minutes

I’d walk that for pleasure, but not for work. Time for you to get a bike.

Nah. If I can use public transport for such distances, I will.

For once because it’s quicker, and because my path would probably lead along some noisy roads, so it wouldn’t be fun to walk there

I usually run that kind of distance on a e scooter. Faster, less noise and pollution.

People talking walkable cities forget that cars move more than just people. And people don’t stay in one living spot all the time. No modern city works without the logistics moving goods in and out and peoples stuff from and to their homes and businesses.

So you can’t just remove all the streets and make a denser neighborhood. You need alternative solutions for logistics. I work in rail and I can tell you there is too many people starving in the world, but not for a lack of food but for a lack of logistics infrastructure to get the food to them in time.

Me personally I love underground rail networks and pneumatic tube delivery, but as an engineer i know about the weaknesses of these systems. For now that remains a dream.

I don’t go to the office often, but when I do, I usually walk. The distance is 4km and it takes me 40mins. It’s not like I walk often, most days I get less than 2k steps, but I do walk fast.

It is up to you (unless the infrastructure is an ass) to make it there in 40mins or 2 hours

I walk 1,5 km in 10-15 minutes (depends on if I am alone or not), so yes I would walk that. But I like walking, I can suggest walking as a way to hang out haha

I’d bike it. 2.3 miles should only be a 45 minute walk for a normal person unless there’s bad stop lights (assume ~20 minute miles). On a bike it’s less than 15

Last time I lived in a city, 15m is where I’d take the bus instead.

Depends on the weather but probably not. I would walk an hour to a concert, to keep from having to park the car, but library, no. 2 miles doesn’t seem like it should take that long though - 2 miles is the distance kids have to have between their house and the school before the school bus will get them, so I had to walk that twice a day for 7 years of my youth, it didn’t take an hour.

Not really.

I may do a walk like that if I incorporate the walk as a leisure. But if I have to just be in a place I won’t be walking more than 30-40 minutes to get to it if there’s a fastest more convenient way.

Walkable means all you need is in reasonable walking distance.

I wouldn’t consider my neighbourhood to be particularly walkable as it’s a suburb (in Europe) but my library is about 15 mins walk away.

Sometimes the amenity you need isn’t in that walkable range, but cycling is a great alternative.