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3 miles over 45 minutes. You can literally walk briskly faster than that!
- Honestly the number of people in that thread claiming that walking 3 miles in 45mins was some super human ability was shocking. I’d bet good money that they have never actually walked more than 5 mins anywhere other than maybe when shopping.
  
  Ok, wait. I regularly take a 1.5km (close to a mile) path uphill that I need 20min to walk (and people say I'm a fast walker). How are you all walking so fast? I need to wait for trafic semaphores and stuff, but how can walking almost 5km (more than 3 times my path) take only twice as long?
  
  Medan human walking speed is ~4 MPH* so, actually, yeah pretty much half of people aren’t going to be able to do 3 miles in 45 minutes right off the bat. That’s before we take into account crosswalks and other walking hazards and that obesity and sedentary lifestyles are on the rise.
  I was taught 5 MPH but I found multiple sources that listed 5, 4, and 3 MPH so yeah…
  
  3 mi in 45 min? That's about 6 or 7 kph. That's a brisk walking pace. And a bicycle easily does twice, maybe even thrice that.
- Not if there are dogs, or bees. Or the dogs with bees in their mouths and when they bark, they shoot bees at you.
  
  I get along with both dogs & bees. The three of us will join powers with the wasp clan and reek havoc on the CEOs!
  
  If those were there I'd probably get to work in 15 minutes lol
- A bicycle would make him feel like Superman
- With no sidewalk, breathing fumes the whole way
  
  WE'RE ALL BREATHING THE FUMES.
  If anything, it's worse in the middle of the lane jammed up another car's exhaust. You think your car protects you from pollution? It exposes you to pollution!
  
  Where do you think the air inside of your car is coming from?
  
  I guess I am lucky I live somewhere not in a city, but my downtown area does have a sidewalk.
- A decent amount of Americans are not in good enough shape to walk 3 miles in any amount of time.
  
  So you're saying they need the exercise? Another good reason to just walk.

As much as I love a good Ten Minutes Hate directed at some carbrain too lazy to walk 4km, it seems I'm going to have to be the one to point out that it's entirely possible that this person's route to work is far too dangerous to walk, let alone cycle.
Just look at that strip of paint some of you are calling a bike lane. Maybe you would be willing to risk your life squeezing amongst the monster trucks on a bike, but I certainly wouldn't. And walk? Breathing all those tailpipe fumes for 30-60min? Hell no. This person may well be looking at 4km of car-exclusive road to get to work.
So instead of ripping into this poor soul for being lazy, maybe we should be considering the very real possibility that their options are limited by poor infrastructure/planning/politics.
- Not Just Bikes has pointed out in numerous videos places where the distance is walkable/bikeable but totally unsafe to walk or bike. Carbrain infrastructure is not just bad because it centers cars, but because it excludes every other option.
- Very sarcastic comment, but if the traffic is bad enough then it becomes safe to cycle again because of how little anyone in a car can move.
  
  Actually, that's a pretty good strategy. I quite like cycling around in heavy traffic for exactly this reason.
- The aggravating part isn't not the lazy, but their complaint that they are building more density surrounding it's area. A less carbrained person would see that as an opportunity to push for bike lanes and public transit.
  
  Yes, even get the developers to pay a contribution as part of the permit.
  I get the impression - or what seems most likely given their ridiculous situation of driving at average of walking pace - that they'll be asking instead for one more lane, and it won't be dedicated for bus or bike or tram.
  At the stage they seem to have reached I think it seems quite fair to ridicule the whole city and everyone who has had the power to vote there for the past generation which presumably includes the ooop.
- That is just a narrow shoulder, you're asking to die riding a bike on that.
- The traffic is moving at walking speed. It's definitely not dangerous to ride bike there...
- it’s entirely possible that this person’s route to work is far too dangerous to walk, let alone cycle.
  If only there was some kind of enlongated multi-passanger vehicle they could use
  
  proceeds to wait 45 minutes in traffic AND 15 minutes additional for the bus
  
  How do you know there is?
  And if there is I don't see a dedicated lane.
  I would still bus on principle because I'm a masochist and stubborn. But I get it when people don't if the infrastructure isn't good.
- The obvious solution is to put your bike on your car's bike rack, pull out across both lanes of traffic, then take your bike off your car and ride from there.
  /s just in case
- This comment is way too reasonable to exist in this community
- That's not even designed to be a bike lane it's just the edge of the road
- That's not even designed to be a bike lane it's just the edge of the road
- With the speed of the traffic being nearly none, I think cycling would be pretty safe in the shoulder there. I wonder what it's like in the morning

You are the traffic
- Four words of complete murder, well played 😆👌

That's a bicycle distance.
- Hell that's a walk distance for many of us.
- It would be if decent bike infrastructure existed.
  
  It probably wouldn't be super pleasant biking on the sidewalk in that picture in the dark... But it might be more pleasant than sitting in the car right there for 45 minutes.
  
  You don't need bike infrastructure when the traffic is moving at walking pace

Thake the bike! Really! At 45 Minutes for 3 Miles, even walking would be faster.
- Yeah if traffic is always jammed you can just ride on the hard shoulder, traffic is slow anyway so not that dangerous.

3 miles = 4.82Km for the rest is us.
- So ~50 minutes by foot.
  
  less if you don't mind sweating
- 🙏

Looks like a bike lane right there.
- The amount of car brain in people is insane. I used to live in an apartment literally two buildings down from my work. Could see it from my window. My roommate still drove every single day. Dude lived in the gym so not like he couldn't do the walk
  
  Honestly I'm so glad I started biking to my high school all those years ago, it conditioned me to view biking as a natural solution for my daily commutes.
  
  And how many of the cars in this photo are going to sit in this same traffic to the gym after work (and try to get the closest parking spot)? If 10 - 20% of them were able to and chose to bike or walk, it would be a more pleasant experience for everyone.
- I was gonna say, ride a fuckin bike removed.
- That's a gutter. But then again, most US bike lanes are just rebranded gutters. I'd bike it.

I walk 3.3 miles to and from work, 3 days a week, takes less than an hour, even if I had a car I'd do that over a 45 minute drive, thas crazy business
- This doesn’t really look like a place with great infrastructure for walking, though 😅
- I walk 3.3 miles to and from work
  In that kind of traffic? You'd be trampled to death
  
  In the middle of the street? Sure. But best part of Lambofeeties is their ability to go places cars typically can't, like the sidewalk or the side of the road

If they only had one more lane...
- A bike lane, perhaps?

So... they're making more housing that is closer to your job? Move there. Now you have a shorter commute. Congrats.

Knocking out my daily jog on the way to or from work would be amazing.

If they're building infill density, they should also build frequent public transit. Even something as simple as dedicated bus lanes would be enough.

Unfortunately not all forced to work are able to walk/bike 3 miles, though that is a good suggestion for most people. I'd be thrilled to be able to walk 3 miles to work so long as it is safe.
- If you can drive a car to work, there are electrified options available that can use bike lanes.

That's a 40 minute walk if you walk fast. Get a bike and it's probably 20 minutes (at least I tend to cycle around twice as fast as I walk)

Fuck Reddit and Fuck Spez.
- I dont think Reddit or Spez have any involvement with OP's traffic issues.
  But maybe I'm just not informed. 🤔
  
  It's obligatory at this point

My work is only a few miles away and it only takes me 10 minutes to get there on my bike: I was lucky enough to find a place near work without it being impossible to ride though.

The Republican shithole burb I live in is determined to bulldoze what little open space remains, and stack more apartments on top of overpriced apartments. No improvements of course. I have to slog 4 miles to the nearest shopping, and if I had to take the bus? A simple errand could run four hours.

I was about to crash out but then I saw the community I was in. whew!
like just get a bike for 3 miles and stfu knock down your travel times get exercise it's not a hard! see, I still had to rant even a little. sorry lol

I use an electric stand up scooter and a full face helmet. 3 miles is 20 minutes.

4,82 km in 45 minutes is an easy walk??
- That’s 6.5 km/h, or about 4 mph. Very average.
  My most recent measured walk, just wandering in no hurry was 4.37 km in 52 min. That’s 5 km/h or a little more than 3 mph.
  So … yes?
  
  Absolutely! I have a regular round I walk around the river that is about 9 km and takes a bit over 1,5 hours, so about the same. A bicycle would save this person tons of time through.

get a horse

Yep, my area is like that. Long lines starting at 2:30 every day, lasting until at least 7. All along the entire route, there are new, enormous complexes going up on every square inch of open ground, and almost no road widening. When they do try to increase the infrastructure, by the time it's finished, it's already built up too much for the new roads to handle.
- They're building high density transit to go with the high density housing, right? Cars are not high density transit.

Totally thought the rear camera LCD was a display of a beluga leaving a docking station in elite dangerous

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Fuck Reddit and Fuck Spez.