{"id":3081,"date":"2012-05-21T13:16:06","date_gmt":"2012-05-21T13:16:06","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/montgomeryplanning.org\/blog-design\/?p=3081"},"modified":"2026-03-23T14:13:22","modified_gmt":"2026-03-23T18:13:22","slug":"how-far-can-you-get-on-transit-in-10-30-45-minutes","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/montgomeryplanning.org\/blog-design\/2012\/05\/how-far-can-you-get-on-transit-in-10-30-45-minutes\/","title":{"rendered":"How far can you get on transit in 10, 30, 45 minutes?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"lead\">What a fun toy!\u00a0 <a title=\"Mapnificent Web Site\" href=\"http:\/\/www.mapnificent.net\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Mapnificent<\/a> shows you how far you can travel on transit from any address for several cities around the world.<\/p>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/montgomeryplanning.org\/blog-design\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/05\/mapnificent-full-map1.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-medium wp-image-3108\" title=\"mapnificent full map\" src=\"http:\/\/montgomeryplanning.org\/blog-design\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/05\/mapnificent-full-map1-300x176.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"176\" srcset=\"https:\/\/montgomeryplanning.org\/blog-design\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/05\/mapnificent-full-map1-300x176.jpg 300w, https:\/\/montgomeryplanning.org\/blog-design\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/05\/mapnificent-full-map1-1024x604.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/montgomeryplanning.org\/blog-design\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/05\/mapnificent-full-map1.jpg 1917w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a>\n<p>You can choose the travel time along a sliding bar and choose specific addresses or drag a pin on the map around.\u00a0 Here&#8217;s the blob from the Planning Department&#8217;s address set at 30 minutes:<\/p>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/montgomeryplanning.org\/blog-design\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/05\/mapnificent-silver-spring.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-medium wp-image-3109\" title=\"mapnificent silver spring\" src=\"http:\/\/montgomeryplanning.org\/blog-design\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/05\/mapnificent-silver-spring-300x176.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"176\" srcset=\"https:\/\/montgomeryplanning.org\/blog-design\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/05\/mapnificent-silver-spring-300x176.jpg 300w, https:\/\/montgomeryplanning.org\/blog-design\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/05\/mapnificent-silver-spring-1024x603.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/montgomeryplanning.org\/blog-design\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/05\/mapnificent-silver-spring.jpg 1921w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a>\n<p>I was able to quickly look at Chicago and Philadelphia, two cities I&#8217;ll be visiting soon, and the times looked about like I&#8217;ve experienced before (as does Silver Spring&#8217;s).\u00a0 Nothing for Providence, another city I&#8217;ll be visiting this summer, although I know RIPTA has a decent system.<\/p>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/montgomeryplanning.org\/blog-design\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/05\/RIPTA-Providence.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-medium wp-image-3110\" title=\"RIPTA Providence\" src=\"http:\/\/montgomeryplanning.org\/blog-design\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/05\/RIPTA-Providence-300x279.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"279\" srcset=\"https:\/\/montgomeryplanning.org\/blog-design\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/05\/RIPTA-Providence-300x279.jpg 300w, https:\/\/montgomeryplanning.org\/blog-design\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/05\/RIPTA-Providence-1024x954.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/montgomeryplanning.org\/blog-design\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/05\/RIPTA-Providence.jpg 1207w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a>\n<p>Maybe more soon.<\/p>\n<p>More info and examples were posted on The Atlantic Cities site.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p class=\"lead\">What a fun toy!\u00a0 Mapnificent shows you how far you can travel on transit from any address for several cities around the world.<\/p>\n<p>You can choose the travel time along a sliding bar and choose specific addresses or drag a pin on the map around.\u00a0 Here&#8217;s the blob from the Planning Department&#8217;s address set at 30 minutes:<\/p>\n<p>I was able to quickly look at Chicago and Philadelphia, two cities I&#8217;ll be visiting soon, and the times looked about like I&#8217;ve experienced before (as does Silver Spring&#8217;s).\u00a0 Nothing for Providence, another city I&#8217;ll be visiting this summer, although I know RIPTA has a decent system.<\/p>\n<p>Maybe more soon.<\/p>\n<p>More info and examples were posted on The Atlantic Cities site.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[292,486,97,153],"class_list":["post-3081","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-design","tag-cities","tag-planning","tag-transit","tag-transportation"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/montgomeryplanning.org\/blog-design\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3081","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/montgomeryplanning.org\/blog-design\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/montgomeryplanning.org\/blog-design\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/montgomeryplanning.org\/blog-design\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/montgomeryplanning.org\/blog-design\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3081"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/montgomeryplanning.org\/blog-design\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3081\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":11170,"href":"https:\/\/montgomeryplanning.org\/blog-design\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3081\/revisions\/11170"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/montgomeryplanning.org\/blog-design\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3081"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/montgomeryplanning.org\/blog-design\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3081"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/montgomeryplanning.org\/blog-design\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3081"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}