Suburban Office Parks Increasingly Obsolete; Businesses Choose Walkable Areas

Re:Suburban Office Parks Increasingly Obsolete; Businesses C... by Johnny555 on Monday December 21, 2015 @07:59PM (#10774868)

Indeed, it's not so much that americans are too lazy to walk, but they've been conditioned to not walk.

When I was a child, I road a big yellow school bus to my elementary school, at the time it seemed very far away, when my parents had to go to the school for any reason, they drove their car.

But now, looking at a map, I see that it was literally only a half mile from my house, but I never walked because it meant walking along some streets with heavy car traffic and no sidewalks, just an ungraded shoulder with no curb or other separation from the roadway.

It wasn't until I moved to San Francisco that I realized that walking (or biking) is a far nicer way to get around.

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Re:Suburban Office Parks Increasingly Obsolete; Businesses C... by dalke on Monday December 21, 2015 @09:22PM (#10775331)

A couple of weeks ago we returned a rental car to San Diego, after a one way trip. We checked into the hotel, then were going to go to the airport for the return. We asked the clerk how to get back from the rental car return. "Taxi or Uber is your best bet, though I think there's a bus."

We looked on the map. The rental return was a mile away from the hotel, with sidewalks the whole way. We walked.

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Re:Suburban Office Parks Increasingly Obsolete; Businesses C... by zaroth on Tuesday December 22, 2015 @01:25AM (#10776201)

Pretty bad clerk you had there, I can't believe the suggestion to take taxi from a rental car return to a terminal. But the comparison that the average traveler is ready to walk a mile from their parking spot to the terminal with all their luggage is a bit far-out.

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Re:Suburban Office Parks Increasingly Obsolete; Businesses C... by dalke on Tuesday December 22, 2015 @02:00AM (#10776299)

Sorry, I didn't explain that right. We drove from San Francisco to San Diego, with several stops on the way. We were tourists in San Diego for a couple of days. Our hotel was walking distance from nearly everywhere we wanted go, so we figured to not pay for a car for those extra couple of days. We checked into the hotel, moved our bags into the room, dropped off the car at the San Diego airport, the returned to the hotel for the rest of our visit.

So the walk was from the rental car return to the hotel, not the rental car return to the terminal.

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