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Red is Your Friend with TripTrop Travel Time NYC

Tired of trying to explain to visitors how long it will really take for them to reach LaGuardia without the aid of a taxi? Or perhaps you are a tourist yourself, vainly attempting to juggle a visit to a pizzeria in Brooklyn with an Upper East Side dinner date with old friends. No matter the circumstances, so long as you're pressed for time in New York City, new website TripTrop is your savior.

Combining the average length of time for a person to travel between locations in the Big Apple by both subway and walking, TripTrop displays this information via a fun, rainbow map where red is your friend and blue means you might as well take a helicopter.

In the map above, we've plotted travel times from Times Square, which then displays anything within 10 minutes in the happy red, which cools down in color as the travel time increases.

Sadly, this handy little web tool is only available for New York City right now, but we can totally envision the Google grids of public transportation-friendly cities like San Francisco, Chicago and London underneath its spectrum. Until other cities join in on the TripTrop fun, however, we'll just be over here a gas at how close yet how far away is Red Hook, Brooklyn.

Related Stories:
· TripTrop NYC [Official Site]
· TripTrop NYC: Visualizing Travel Time [PSFK]
· Travel Websites Coverage [Jaunted]

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