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Walking City0% read · 6 min left

Why some streets make you slow down

Lin Chuan · 6 min read

Busy edges

The same four hundred metres can take ten minutes or half an hour. The difference is rarely the distance; it is how many reasons the street gives you to stop.

I counted doors, windows and places to sit every fifty metres for three weekends. The busier the edge, the longer people stayed.

Three corners

Three junctions on Wutong Road held people longest in this survey.

How it was recorded

Each stop is one record in the same format, so they can be compared on a map later.

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{ "stop": "Wutong Rd 120",
  "doors": 7, "seats": 4,
  "minutes": 23 }

One stop, step by step

Break one stop down and it looks roughly like this:

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Walking City38% read · 4 min left
Why some streets make you slow down

The same four hundred metres can take ten minutes or half an hour.

I counted doors, windows and places to sit every fifty metres.

On this pageBusy edgesThree cornersHow it was recordedOne stop, step by step

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