15 Minute Cities

[DJMK4]

to be honest they need to put more trainstations dotted around, this would be far more beneficial

 

[aaronyuri]

to be honest they need to put more trainstations dotted around, this would be far more beneficial

You can thank Thatcher for needing that.

 

[Chuk_Chuk]

Ahhh, apologies. I read drive and thought car. Literally a drive-through Costa.

That's still a hell of a long walk. Do you live in the city itself or in the suburbs?

Interesting question. I would say I live in the city itself. But I’m not sure what the exact technical difference is between the two.

I did decide to cross reference it with other places I’ve lived

London
While the barber and few local shops are 10 mins away. The main shopping centre is 22 mins away. Due to the shopping centre increasing in size since I was a child there are some shops that just fall within the 15 mins window.

Hinckley
I walked d a lot when I lived here. Morrisons was within 12 mins. Doctors and dentist was far. Main shopping centre is 20 mins away. Gym was 20 mins away(was a great warm up walking there)

Leicester
One place I lived was a tiny village outside the city area. You needed to drive.

The other place was within the city and coincidentally was right behind an entertainment retail park that had foot access, so it was a 5 min walk. The nearest place for groceries is 30 min walk to another retail park.


I think There is simply too much variability in starting location due to the sizes of housing. A 15 min walk for you can easily be a 20-25 min walk to someone else, one street across from you.

 

[Chuk_Chuk]

I’m bored at work and this seems like an interesting puzzle to think over.

If you do get a walkable city that means you would need a lot of smaller grocery stores dotted around rather than a singular large one

However if you need to transport enough food to fulfill 500 shoppers. I believe a single 40t truck (or however many fully loaded trucks) transporting all the goods to a single store is more efficient. Than having various small trucks transporting the same quantity of goods to several smaller stores.