I wonder wat speed Google Maps thinks people ride at?
Our commute each way is 25km / 25 mins off peak / 40 mins peak.
According to Google Maps that translates to a 1.25 hour ride. Which I actually wouldnt mind doing to get some fitness back, if it wasnt all frankly terrifying main roads.
My commute would also be 25 km by bike if I went the way Google recommends, and it has an ETA of 88 minutes. That’s 17 km/h.
CoMaps routes me a more direct (but probably less comfortable in terms of traffic stress) route, 20 km. It estimates that’s 93 minutes, so just 13 km/h. I think the route it takes is a bit hillier and night require more stopping at traffic lights than Google’s though—not sure if that’s part of its calculation.
I’d usually average more like 28 if I can just ride, and somewhere around 20–24 if I’m stopping a bunch (hard to say for certain, because my Garmin pauses when it detects I’ve gone below about 5 km/h). So that’s more like 53–75 minutes total. When I was really fit I did the 7 km commute I had at the time at an average speed (according to my Garmin, so times I was completely stopped didn’t count, though slowing down and starting up before/after each stop still counted) of 30.
if it wasnt all frankly terrifying main roads
Depending on where exactly you live, there might or might not be an alternative detour you can take to be on safer or more separated roads/paths.
Tools like Strava Heatmap, Ride With GPS, council maps, and local bike groups might be able to help you find a better route than the one you’d instinctively go if you’ve been driving a lot.
I wonder wat speed Google Maps thinks people ride at?
Our commute each way is 25km / 25 mins off peak / 40 mins peak.
According to Google Maps that translates to a 1.25 hour ride. Which I actually wouldnt mind doing to get some fitness back, if it wasnt all frankly terrifying main roads.
Extremely slowly in my experience.
My commute would also be 25 km by bike if I went the way Google recommends, and it has an ETA of 88 minutes. That’s 17 km/h.
CoMaps routes me a more direct (but probably less comfortable in terms of traffic stress) route, 20 km. It estimates that’s 93 minutes, so just 13 km/h. I think the route it takes is a bit hillier and night require more stopping at traffic lights than Google’s though—not sure if that’s part of its calculation.
I’d usually average more like 28 if I can just ride, and somewhere around 20–24 if I’m stopping a bunch (hard to say for certain, because my Garmin pauses when it detects I’ve gone below about 5 km/h). So that’s more like 53–75 minutes total. When I was really fit I did the 7 km commute I had at the time at an average speed (according to my Garmin, so times I was completely stopped didn’t count, though slowing down and starting up before/after each stop still counted) of 30.
Depending on where exactly you live, there might or might not be an alternative detour you can take to be on safer or more separated roads/paths.
Tools like Strava Heatmap, Ride With GPS, council maps, and local bike groups might be able to help you find a better route than the one you’d instinctively go if you’ve been driving a lot.
Google maps barely considers anything outside of a car to exist.
It’s why Swanston Street looks tiny on the map despite being busiest in Melbourne’s CBD