One Mile Solution?

Ed Moses

What do people around here make of the :One Mile Solution"? http://isocrates.us/bike/2008/12/the-1-mile-solution/

The idea is simple: Find your home on a map. Draw a circle with a 1-mile radius around your home. Try to replace one car trip per week within that circle by riding a bicycle or walking. At an easy riding pace you can travel one mile on a bicycle in about seven minutes. Walking takes about 20 minutes at an easy pace.

As a keen cyclist I can see some sense to this!

Discuss

downfader

They stole my idea!!!

One mile, yes, but only one trip nah, make it a few more. And make big firms car pool more (pick up your mates, they can give you a couple of quid a month towards fuel)

My personal philosophy is that unless you need to cart around big tools, make deliveries or travel many many miles you should be aiming for 10 miles around for cycling, and 1-3 for walking if the fancy takes you (and it often does for me)

ColinJ

Virtually every time I leave my house I'm on foot or one of my bikes ! There might be 2 or 3 exceptions a year when somebody gives me a lift somewhere.

GavH

Wouldn't work for me. I live just over 2 miles from work but the nearest shops are a further mile and a bit down the road. In other words, apart from other houses and the A34, there is nothing within one mile of me that I'd be able to cycle to!

gavintc

Living in the city centre, driving does not make sense. I walk everywhere and will only drive for journeys out of the city.

snakehips

I would only drive to somewhere within one mile in exceptional circumstances , e.g. I needed a few bags of sand/cement from Wickes.