*exactly* that way–you might spend the next hour making up for lost time on your driving errands and do 5 of them in one hour.
but my point is that thinking in terms of time spent rather than trip distance is more productive. this is touched on in the article, but just for example, when i go shopping by bike i generally chose the stores 1, 2 or 5 miles away. by car i choose 5, 10, or 20 miles away. both trips take the same amount of time.
most people, like me, don’t think in terms of how far the trip is but how much time it will take. if i 