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Brent ToderianGOOD IDEA: This may look like a transit map, but it’s actually a map of typical walking times & distances in the walkable, car-free Spanish city of #Pontevedra. A simple, clever idea that every city working to be more walkable should steal.
hsil@BrentToderian Ottawa had a good idea when the O-Train launched. They gave stickers to downtown merchants to put in their shop window that said something like, "We're less than a 5-minute walk from the O-Train station". This created an opportunity for customers who drove there to at least be aware of the option.
Fiona@BrentToderian That is such a great example.
Having sign boards mapping the “20 minute city” concept here in Melbourne, Australia is something that has truly changed my behaviour. Was embarrassed to learn our supermarket is only 300m away and I was driving there 😳 The family now walks for almost all short trips, shopping & connecting to transport outside the “20 minute” zone.
Cycling JudyWhat's wrong with an actual map?
Joel de Bruijn@cyclingjudy @BrentToderian I guess all the reasons why metro-maps exist apply here also: readability and complexity reducing by focusing only on the info relevant to like 80% of the people and leave out the rest.
Nick@BrentToderian Legible London is a really good example of this done in physical space to help people get their bearings and show what’s in (very) easy walking distance:
https://tfl.gov.uk/info-for/boroughs-and-communities/maps-and-signs
Joachim@BrentToderian I’ve made the same kind of tool, but for bicycling, and for Paris: https://joachimesque.github.io/paris-a-velo/
Dan 🌈@BrentToderian Metrominuto maps are great. I've seen them in Spain and France. Apparently they're also popular in Italy?
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Metrominuto
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Metrominuto
NachoMM 
@BrentToderian And you can also use it to play Tic-tac-toe
Cloud & Gut
Dan Berky "דן" ℞ MS 🇺🇲 🇩🇪 🇮🇱
BarryP@BrentToderian Went there about ten years ago. It’s a nice old town and not surrounded by as much “you could be anywhere” as Santiago di Compostela.
Jan Terpstra@BrentToderian this assumes everyone can walk even a small distance.
David Edwards@BrentToderian interesting, what do the colours mean? To me they look entirely random.
María Ramos@BrentToderian I lived there, in Pontevedra, from 2000 til 2004 and saw the first changes in the urban landscape. This is just a small part of a much bigger plan towards sustainability that started more than 20 years ago in the city https://citychangers.org/pontevedra-the-little-utopian-city-that-drove-out-cars/?cn-reloaded=1
LievenBlancke@BrentToderian
The city of Ghent in Belgium has a similar map https://stad.gent/nl/mobiliteit-openbare-werken/nieuws-evenementen/metroplan-voor-voetgangers-spoort-gentenaars-aan-om-te-voet-te-gaan
The city of Ghent in Belgium has a similar map https://stad.gent/nl/mobiliteit-openbare-werken/nieuws-evenementen/metroplan-voor-voetgangers-spoort-gentenaars-aan-om-te-voet-te-gaan
Adri_FC@BrentToderian Take a look to this short documentary about how Pontevedra looks now (in Galician with English subtitles)
Pontevedra: una ciudad para las personas
thebostonlol@BrentToderian @wutrain this is absolutely how Boston should start mapping out the city but with bike times. Boston is smaller on a bike than in a car!
Daniel Brotherston@BrentToderian I did this with our regions pilot bike lanes. No times though. But I thought it was interesting to highlight all the places you could get on protected infra.
Leserin17@BrentToderian @mariodujakovic Is there something like this for Vienna also?
I think this is a great idea for everbody exploring a city! 🚶♀️🚶♂️🚶
I think this is a great idea for everbody exploring a city! 🚶♀️🚶♂️🚶
Geert Van Damme
Ian@BrentToderian Looks interesting. I'm not sure that this would work for a city the size of London, as the number of connections required would be orders of magnitude greater, but perhaps someone could make an app which interactively makes a subset for a local area... Transport for London, bless them, have made an effort to cater for walkers:
https://tfl.gov.uk/modes/walking/
https://tfl.gov.uk/modes/walking/
OJBender@BrentToderian but how do you GET to the city? I‘d like to see a landing zone for shuttles coming from the outer belts to visit the civilians. Don’t need car in city but need private shuttle to get NEAR it. Is there a Park and Ride concept to the plan?
scf@BrentToderian how ableist of you, on the first day of the new year.
Are you also encouraging people not to mask or get vaccinated?
Mary@theli We should make one of these for Seattle neighborhoods
theli@musicalcomet First, a list
Bicycle-Riding Motorist@BrentToderian Here's one we did for Bolton, England. The times are for cycling.
Vesna ManojlovićThat’s where the 10th #DeGrowth conference will be, @BrentToderian https://degrowth.info/en/blog/the-next-international-esee-degrowth-conference-in-pontevedra-in-2024
Noam Bergman
Annabelle 🇬🇱🇨🇦🇺🇦🇪🇺@BrentToderian There are similar maps around London:
https://www.city-walks.info/London-en/Walk-City-Thames.html
or
https://walks.gojauntly.com/walks/brutalism-beach-banksy-bridges-16610098569061536231
I am trying to locate a picture of the maps you come across on the streets in Southwark which tell you what is in range of 5 minutes walk, or 10 minutes, 15 minutes.