OK, this was stupid enough to bring me back in.
A lot of these areas are broken up to cut down load times, they aren't there simply to piss you off. As much as you want to hate on Bioware, no one intentionally sabotages themselves on a multi-million dollar project. They serve a purpose, regardless of whether or not you see it.
I'm all for streamlining the traveling process, but after 90 pages half of these arguments have become "Why won't the game just travel for me?! This is amateur crap!!"
If your problem isn't that it takes 6 minutes for you to walk somewhere, but rather that it takes 6 minutes for you to walk somewhere, then please go play in traffic.