If the library is the all day activity then sure! Great start and end to it.

Yes. I would but no it would not take that long. I walked to and from work 3 miles for awhile and it was about 45 mins. A neat thing with walking is that the time is very consistant. If I walked pretty much as fast as I could and was lucky on street lights and such I could almost make it in 35 minutes but if I took my sweet ass time it was hard to get to an hour. If I was taking one hour and 15minutes I should be able to get to a library that was 5 miles away. I have regularly walked to my current library in recent times and its about a mile and a half away but I have not really kept track of how long it takes me.

I used to live about that distance from my work. I only walked it occasionally, if the weather was nice, I had the time to spare, and a little extra energy. Generally I took the bus.

I think 30 minutes is about how long I’d walk to get somewhere before considering public transit or driving.

I wouldn’t hesitate to walk that far for a library, but realistically I’d take my cruiser bike for that distance. I’ve heard people tend to cite around 15-20 minutes as the maximum walk length that is considered “walkable,” but I’ve often chosen walking longer distances than that even when other options were available. For dense urban areas, I’d rather walk that take a bus unless it’s really far. Sometimes I get passed up by the same bus 5 or 6 times along the way. I agree with others who have said that time estimate sounds way long.

4km / >30 mins is ok for 2x per month - but get a bike, that’s a 15 min ride - just l9ng enough for casual excessive.

Bus or bike distance.

But i also walk closer to 3mph so maybe it would be on the edge of the weather is nice.

I don’t do walks longer than 20 minutes unless it’s for pleasure, thankfully the bus can get me most places I want to go beyond that. The terrain also makes a difference, I’d be less inclined to do 20 minutes uphill or across multiple freeways or something.

I think the most I would walk is around 40-45 minutes. So no, 1h15m would be far too long to justify walking. Maybe on the weekend if the library was super nice?

I live in a walkable European city.

My nearest library is 5 minutes away, there’s a bigger library maybe 20 minutes away, and for anything further I’d take public transport.

Yes, when i was a piss poor student I walked home from the booze shop because I missed the bus.

No. I’d not do that anymore. I don’t have the free time and I prefer other kinds of exercise.

If that’s the round trip, yes. I do that daily. But one way? No.

No, and my closest library is closer to 15 minutes away.

I can, and have in the past, it’s not that big of a deal, but it’s not something I do regularly. Here’s the thing, 4km takes about 1h walking, 30min by bus/tram, 20min by car (then another 10min finding a place to park), or 15min by bike. This is why bikes are so ubiquitous in European cities, you can get to places usually much faster than by public transport, and sometimes even faster than cars since they have to do weird paths and skip entire neighborhoods.

I normally would take public transport for such distances, mostly because I don’t own a bike and sweat more than I’m comfortable with when I ride one, and don’t mind the extra 15min of listening to music.

I live in the US and even my walk to the library isn’t that bad. Ive done walks that long or a bit longer as a novelty or to get exercise, but in general no, about half an hour is about as long as I “normally” like to go without looking into a bus or something.

I walk more than that just to listen to my podcast in peace lol