commuting distance

[walkitout]

There are a lot of people who regularly drive an hour each way most days of the week to go to work. There are a lot more people who take buses or similar an hour each way most days of the week to go to work. When I figured out walking distance for buying my condo, I took that number and turned it into how far I could walk in an hour and got 3 miles. But I'm having a helluva time finding anyone, anywhere, at any time or place, that regularly walked 3 miles each way to go to work.

Any ideas?

Comments

[ethelmay.livejournal.com]

I used to walk to work fairly often in Worcester. I'm not sure of the distance, but it took me about 45 minutes to an hour. However, that was most often in ice and snow (which is when I wouldn't drive -- I was a lot less nervous about falling down on the ice, which I did frequently and never seriously hurt myself, than about driving on ice, and if it had just snowed, digging the car out plus driving took as long as walking). So it may not have been as much as three miles, though the effort (slogging over refrozen snow) may have been greater than just strolling three miles.

My sister used to walk from our house on Capitol Hill to the restaurant where she worked in Pioneer Square. I thought that was a terribly long way, but I just MapQuested it and it was under 2.5 miles. There are a lot of hills on the way back, though.

I used to walk from my condo to Pioneer Square

[walkitout]

I was taking classes at Washington Academy of Languages. I tried a bunch of routes and going there was never a problem -- it was the coming back that sucked because of those hills. I'd also walk down to Pioneer Square to go out to a restaurant (and to Pike Place market, more often, and a variety of other places). To my mind, that was all walking distance, even on a cold and rainy night.