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Author: DaveBathnes

_posts/2025-01-14-walk-to-your-local-library.md

@@ -18,13 +18,13 @@ For England and Wales, headline 'walking to the library' figures are:
 
 This focus on walking is positive. The [15-minute city](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/15-minute_city) concept seems to be controversial, but it's not wrong to plan areas with the aim of making essential services accessible without driving.
 
-Anyway, here's a riddle. I've checked the journey planner on Google Maps: the walking time between my house and my local library is 14 minutes. And the walking time between my house and my local library is also 20 minutes. Eh? Is that difference from taking the scenic route? No, though pleasant walks are important. We should also consider safe routes, as there will plenty of walking routes where people don't feel safe for various reasons.
+Anyway, here's a riddle. I've checked the journey planner on Google Maps: the walking time between my house and my local library is 14 minutes. And the walking time between my house and my local library is also 20 minutes. Eh? Is that extra 6 minutes from taking the scenic route? No, though pleasant walks are important. We should also consider safe routes, as there will plenty of walking routes where people don't feel safe for various reasons.
 
 In this case it's the same route. But the difference is going to the library or coming back from it. Going there is downhill, and coming back is uphill (longer). So, am I within 15 minutes walk of my local library?
 
-I'd argue not. You generally have to travel back from anywhere you visit, and it's no good telling people it's just a 15 minute walk if they can't get back in that time. You expect to come back from a library laden with books, so it's likely to take even longer to lug them up the hill.
+I'd argue not. You generally have to travel back from anywhere you visit, and it's no good telling people it's just 15 minutes if they can't get back in that time. You expect to come back from a library laden with books, so it's likely to take even longer to lug them up the hill.
 
-We appreciate that a 15 minute walk isn't accessible for everyone anyway, but an uphill climb makes it more of a barrier than calculated assessments indicate. Many people just won't do that journey (it really is pretty steep).
+We already appreciate that a 15 minute walk isn't accessible for everyone anyway, but an uphill climb makes it more of a barrier than calculated assessments indicate. Many people just won't do that journey (it really is pretty steep).
 
 We should look back at the ONS data to see what they did. The cover notes on their spreadsheet say they worked in collaboration with Ordnance Survey, who have a routing network for walking, and other travel modes. In this case it doesn't look like elevation is taken into consideration. The shortest route is calculated, then a distance and walking speed of 4.8km per hour is used to calculate time (this follows 'Department for Transport Journey Time Statistics'). The libraries are defined as destinations in the analysis, so it's assessing the walking route TO the library. Presumably it would provide similar results for going back home, unless the routes were constrained by being 'one-way', which is less likely when walking.