I’ve heard the legends of having to drive to literally everywhere (e.g. drive thru banks), but I have no clue how far apart things are.
I live in suburban London where you can get to a big supermarket in 10 minutes of walking, a train station in 20 minutes and convenience stores are everywhere. You can get anywhere with bus and train in a few hours.
Can someone help a clueless British lemmyposter know how far things are in the US?
EDIT
Here are my walking distances:
- To the nearest convenience store: 250m
- To the nearest chain supermarket: 350m
- To the bus stop: 310m
- To the nearest park: 400m
- To the nearest big supermarket: 1.3km
- To the nearest library: 1.2km
- To the nearest train station: 1km
Straight-line distance to Big Ben: 16km
Highest annual average miles driven per driver is Wyoming with 24,069 mi per year or about 65.898 mi a day.
Lowest is Rhode Island with 9,961 mi per year or 27.272 per day
The top 10 populous cities have the average physical distance between as 1241.3, 1070.5, and 1073.7 miles for places, urban areas, and core-based statistical areas, respectively.
The longest driveable stretch between two populations of any type is over 5,000, but the USA also has several pacific territories.
Btw I know you people tend to get confused so to prevent you from crashing and dying:
1 mi = 1.609344 km
1 km = 0.6213712 mi
Example:
1241.3 mi * 1.609344 km/m = 1,997.6787072 km
As far as walking is considered, theres a ton of grid plans as well as cul de sac plans in the USA which are frankly inferior for walkability compared to our European Neighbors.