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2.9 miles isn't even far. You could just walk.
I mean, it's an hour's walk for the average person.
And that's assuming safe neighborhoods, actual sidewalks, good street lighting (if at night), pleasant weather etc.
Not to mention shoes that are actually comfortable for long walks. You'd be surprised how many people don't have that kind of shoes, and an hour's walk in their regular shoes would give them blisters.
Only if fully able-bodied and there's safe footpath present, but yeah, more of us should just walk.
That’s an hour walk- one way- for the the “average” person.
Throw in climate hazards- winter where I live, that walk is happening in -10f temperatures, probably with wind blasting enough to be deadly.
In summer, we typically have temperatures reaching 98-101 f for about a week with muggy-as-hell 80’s for several months. Also enough to be deadly.
Further, let’s say hypothetically, that’s a grocery run. Frozen goods out for that long pose a food safety risk.unless your lugging an ice packed cooler or something… which kinda sounds like my personal version of hell… that’s also likely to, you know, be deleterious to one’s health.
(Okay so maybe you luck out and just get the squirts.)
Who is going from Manhattan to West side, or visa versa for groceries?
And the coldest NYC has ever gotten was -1F on Feb 14th 2016, with an average low of 26 degrees in their coldest month.
I live in Minnesota, not NY, and even in Minneapolis, the density of actual grocers is not that high
In any case, most deaths happen from hypothermia at 35-25 F, so that hour long exposure is still potentially lethal
People who can't walk usually can't drive either. Stop with this irrelevant "able body" argument.
Go back to reddit
Yep, have walked such distances semi regularly
Not if where you live is a car-centric hellhole with uneven, badly kept or sometimes even nonexistent sidewalks, and where cars are eager to run you over at every intersection because they have a "Why are you walking? You must be a poor so fuck you." Mentality
I live in Houston. Probably the least pedestrian friendly city on earth. I would still walk over paying that.