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0 pointsLordKano9y ago0 comments

Unless you are driving quite a long distance and/or on the open highway, car travel is not as much faster than foot travel as some people seem to believe.

I'm going to have to disagree on this one.

I can drive to my local Wal-Mart in about 5 minutes. It would take me 30 minutes to walk there. I can drive there. Do my shopping, wait in line, pay, cart my stuff back out to my vehicle and drive home in less than the amount of time it would take to walk there.

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specialist9y ago· 1 in thread

Mz is clearly referring to urban (civilized) areas.

The closest WalMart to me (checking...) is 13 miles away.

LordKanoOP9y ago

If that's the case, why the reference to open highways?

estebank9y ago

I've lived in multiple cities of different size where I had multiple grocery stores within 5 minutes walking. In dense-for-US SF where I need to drive for 10 minutes to get to the closest Safeway.

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