Many people in the U.S. do not walk, bike or engage in other forms of active transportation, missing an important opportunity to improve their cardiovascular health, concludes a new study.
made the rounds on twitter today and I have to say, christ alive
i work with suburboids who are too scared to go on walks. if it isn’t a walk from the parking lot to the store, or up the driveway, to their house, they won’t do it
This picks up two points I that are dear to me and they’re both just “it’s also very much a cultural issue”. Both on the suburban anxiety disorder and also on the part of how 10 minutes of continous walking is very well within territory of walking to two stores from the parking lot without moving your car. Fuck, some of them driveways in the US, probably.
It is an issue of infrastructure, absolutely, but you have to negatively incentivize people out of cars or they’ll never stop, because that’s like asking them to take a hot air balloon to whereever they’re going. It’s just not an option for them.
My relative was an exhange student in the US in the 70s and has told me that one of the problems she ran into with the host family was the way she would just go for walks and jogs around the area by herself. This was somehow super dangerous and unheard of, she said the area was just a basic suburb.
This picks up two points I that are dear to me and they’re both just “it’s also very much a cultural issue”. Both on the suburban anxiety disorder and also on the part of how 10 minutes of continous walking is very well within territory of walking to two stores from the parking lot without moving your car. Fuck, some of them driveways in the US, probably.
It is an issue of infrastructure, absolutely, but you have to negatively incentivize people out of cars or they’ll never stop, because that’s like asking them to take a hot air balloon to whereever they’re going. It’s just not an option for them.
My relative was an exhange student in the US in the 70s and has told me that one of the problems she ran into with the host family was the way she would just go for walks and jogs around the area by herself. This was somehow super dangerous and unheard of, she said the area was just a basic suburb.
It’s an entirely different outlook on life.