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How far can you get walking from your house without crossing the road?

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00100001 · 29/01/2023 12:06

I have to turn right, walk all round the square, up the main road and then about ½ mile later I'm down a cul-de-sac that has no loop out!

Can go left as after 5m it's the road...

I attach a diagram... because I MN properly Grin

How far can you get walking from your house without crossing the road?
How far can you get walking from your house without crossing the road?
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titchy · 29/01/2023 13:50

titchy · 29/01/2023 13:29

Several thousand miles - don't have to cross any roads to get to the train station. That obvs then open up the entire GB and mainland Europe rail networks!

Do I win? Grin

Actually I could get to Heathrow airport without crossing any roads, so technically I could get to Australia!

evtheria · 29/01/2023 13:51

Approx 300m

newtb · 29/01/2023 13:52

About 5 miles and end up at a roundabout.

RomeoOscarXrayIndigoEcho · 29/01/2023 13:58

Left I can walk for 10 metres, right perhaps the same. Straight ahead I only have the width of the pavement and then it's the road.

TheShiningPup · 29/01/2023 14:00

Our evening dog walk around the block just about fulfils this and that's 1.2km, we'd have to do a few more in and outs down a couple of cul de sacs to meet your rules completely so prob 1.5km total

DRS1970 · 29/01/2023 14:06

I can't get anywhere without crossing my road. 🙄

CatOnTheChair · 29/01/2023 14:16

Infinite distance, in an 800m loop.

Tarkan · 29/01/2023 14:20

We live on a street with a cul-de-sac either side of us, I don't think there are paths right around them both so I'd have to walk through people's front gardens if I didn't want to go on the road at all, we could make it all the way round the neighbouring streets and back to our house if I did that though.

If I didn't do that then I could walk in front of 2 neighbours' places in one direction, or past a small block of flats in the other direction and maybe a small way up that cul-de-sac.

DontMakeMeShushYou · 29/01/2023 14:20

Miles! I live on the outskirts of a village and could easily walk in the countryside for many miles before needing to cross a road, and many more if I did a loop round.

kitsuneghost · 29/01/2023 14:25

Does a car park entrance count as a road?

unlimiteddilutingjuice · 29/01/2023 15:09

That sounds like a mid life crisis challenge that is turned into a book. Somwhere on the walk you will have to 'bump' into Julia Bradbury. 'I just kept walking until I came to the sea'. You could call the book 'Travelling without roads'

OMG it really does!
Someone stage an intervention before I start ringing round publishers

Maggiesgirl · 29/01/2023 15:24

About 1/2 mile if I turn right, and about 10 miles if I turn left. We are quite rural though.

EspeciallyDetermined · 29/01/2023 15:25

About 200m in one direction and probably 1.5 miles loop back to home in the other (round a very wiggly set of cul-de-sacs and other residential streets, would rejoin the original route about 300m from home).

Didiplanthis · 29/01/2023 15:30

No where, I need to cross a road to get to my car, but there road is another through lane/track down to a farm so not sure it counts ! However I cant actually get anywhere useful as lane at top opens onto 60pmh country road with no pavements and annual fatalities.. so can only go for a walk in countryside not functionally !

HagridTheGiant · 29/01/2023 15:47

If I go left, fur houses down.
Turning right, I can get to the end of our street, down another one, loop around that road, and go a good maybe two miles alongside fields before coming to a road that would need crossing

roseberrycherry · 29/01/2023 15:51

Miles! Can walk to local primary and secondary school without crossing main roads.

TeenDivided · 29/01/2023 15:52

I can get almost anywhere as I can reach a railway station without crossing a road.
Even without going to the station I can get to a canal and walk along that for further than I'd care to.

ErrolTheDragon · 29/01/2023 15:55

No distance at all, I live in a cul-de-sac with no pavements. I suppose I could tiptoe round the edge of the neighbour's lawns but that wouldn't get me very far before I had to cross either the main road or a side road.
But having done that, half a mile and a couple more crossings and I'm on a canal towpath which I could walk for many miles

postwarbulge · 29/01/2023 15:56

About 100 yards

hiredandsqueak · 29/01/2023 15:59

Not very far live midway on a cul de sac so to the end of the street really maybe 100 yards

00100001 · 29/01/2023 15:59

roseberrycherry · 29/01/2023 15:51

Miles! Can walk to local primary and secondary school without crossing main roads.

Main roads, it any roads?

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Floralnomad · 29/01/2023 16:02

About 1 mile if I turn right and 100m if I turn left

RenegadeKeeblerElf · 29/01/2023 16:16

Turning left out of my house, about a 5 min walk to the canal and then several miles in either direction, possibly all the way to the Thames and beyond, I've never tried it. Turning right would possibly not get me as far, I think I'd either loop back to my house eventually (about a 5k loop), or if I went the other way along the first road I come to I'd probably end up blocked by the M25 or A3 at some point.

SisterAgatha · 29/01/2023 16:46

RenegadeKeeblerElf · 29/01/2023 16:16

Turning left out of my house, about a 5 min walk to the canal and then several miles in either direction, possibly all the way to the Thames and beyond, I've never tried it. Turning right would possibly not get me as far, I think I'd either loop back to my house eventually (about a 5k loop), or if I went the other way along the first road I come to I'd probably end up blocked by the M25 or A3 at some point.

Our river goes under the m25, and our canal goes over it. I could probably just keep going along the row path for miles and miles. This kind of makes me want to try it now.

i know my brother has walked south to central London and it’s about 17 miles that way (11 to drive)

Outfor150 · 29/01/2023 16:48

Forever. I’d just walk around the block and keep coming back to my house. No need to cross a road.

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