Comment 97596

By StephenBarath (registered) | Posted February 13, 2014 at 14:27:20 in reply to Comment 97592

If the average walking speed is five kilometers per hour, 200 meters takes 2.4 minutes. 400 meters takes 4.8 minutes. In 4.8 minutes, a car traveling 55 kilometers per hour covers 4.4 kilometers.

A 73 year-old on Hamiltonian sidewalks in the winter is probably not going to be walking five kilometers per hour so the comparison is generous, but if motor traffic were diverted more than four kilometers for no good reason, no one would be able to tell those motorists that it doesn’t seem like a significant distance, even though it’s the same amount of added time (and a lot less added risk).

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