{"id":12216,"date":"2012-10-15T12:00:57","date_gmt":"2012-10-15T15:00:57","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/spacingatlantic.ca\/?p=12216"},"modified":"2013-01-21T04:57:19","modified_gmt":"2013-01-21T08:57:19","slug":"urban-planet-walking-times","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/spacing.ca\/atlantic\/2012\/10\/15\/urban-planet-walking-times\/","title":{"rendered":"Urban Planet: Walking Times"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/spacing.ca\/toronto\/?attachment_id=34144\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-34144\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" title=\"london\" src=\"https:\/\/spacing.ca\/toronto\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/10\/london.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"593\" height=\"390\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/spacing.ca\/toronto\/2012\/01\/18\/urban-planet-how-the-dutch-got-their-cycle-paths\/feature-urban-planet\/\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-25153\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" title=\"feature-urban-planet\" src=\"https:\/\/spacing.ca\/toronto\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/01\/feature-urban-planet.gif\" alt=\"\" width=\"600\" height=\"63\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p><em>Urban Planet is a daily roundup of blogs from around the world dealing specifically with urban environments. We\u2019ll be on the lookout for websites outside the country that approach themes related to urban experiences and issues.<\/em><\/p>\n<p>Trying to encourage people to walk, the London Olympic Committee erected a variety of wayfinding signs with estimated walking times to popular destinations. But as this article from the <a href=\"http:\/\/online.wsj.com\/article_email\/SB10000872396390443866404577565393462051770-lMyQjAxMTAyMDEwNDAxODQ3Wj.html?mod=wsj_valetleft_email\">Wall Street Journal<\/a> discusses, estimated travel times are highly subjective, resulting in contradictory estimates of how long it might take. Factors such as walking speed, elevation, congestion and stops can make a significant impact &#8211; and it seems nearly every estimator accounts for these factors differently.<\/p>\n<p><em>Image from <a href=\"http:\/\/transportationnation.org\/2012\/08\/08\/olympics-have-london-rethinking-iconic-underground-signage\/\">Transportation Nation<\/a><br \/>\n<\/em><\/p>\n<p><em>For more stories from around the planet, check out Spacing on\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/pages\/Spacing\/111174192229238\">Facebook<\/a>\u00a0and\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/twitter.com\/#!\/Spacing\">Twitter<\/a>. Do you have an Urban Planet worthy article you&#8217;d like to share? Send the link to\u00a0<a href=\"mailto:urbanplanet@spacing.ca\">urbanplanet@spacing.ca<\/a><\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Urban Planet is a daily roundup of blogs from around the world dealing specifically with urban environments. 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Trying to encourage people to walk, the London Olympic Committee erected a variety of wayfinding signs with estimated walking<a href=\"https:\/\/spacing.ca\/atlantic\/2012\/10\/15\/urban-planet-walking-times\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"sr-only\">&#8220;Urban Planet: Walking Times&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4081,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"_ef_editorial_meta_paragraph_assignment":"","_ef_editorial_meta_date_first-draft-date":"","_ef_editorial_meta_checkbox_needs-photo":"","_ef_editorial_meta_number_word-count":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[5864],"tags":[684,5656,3265,2969,1174,464,3266],"class_list":["post-12216","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-features","tag-facebook","tag-london-olympic-committee","tag-the-wall-street-journal","tag-travel-times","tag-twitter","tag-urban-planet","tag-wall-street-journal"],"acf":[],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v26.5 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/wordpress\/plugins\/seo\/ -->\n<title>Urban Planet: Walking Times - Spacing Atlantic<\/title>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/spacing.ca\/atlantic\/2012\/10\/15\/urban-planet-walking-times\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"Urban Planet: Walking Times - Spacing Atlantic\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"Urban Planet is a daily roundup of blogs from around the world dealing specifically with urban environments. 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