Walkability

[Anastasia Beaverhausen]

Get Your Walk Score - A Walkability Score For Any Address (www.walkscore.com) <-- cool site

This site is a big help, because we don't drive, and walk everywhere/take public transport.

My current address: 94/100. This is very true. I have everything I could possibly need on King Street (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/King_Street,_Newtown), and if not, it's a short walk to the train station.

House I grew up in: 43/100; "car dependent." To that I can only say "no shit." Knoxville as a whole is quite car dependent, as I said in another thread. The site lists the Apple store under "entertainment." :lolwut: The score is probably skewed because the house is about a mile from a mall.

[Ari]

24/100 but the walking is fine.
I'm an odd one out for their system I think, being across from a lake means that I have to take the bus at least a few blocks and then there is a populated area with a mall.

[ceptimus]

60/100 but it doesn't seem very accurate; it missed a couple of supermarkets that are considerably closer than the ones it listed. :shrug:

[erimir]

It gives me a 52 for my current location, because it's 1.5 mi to get to campus (and there are a number of restaurants and things on the edge of campus), and there isn't a whole lot right next to my place.

But the bus drives by, and I usually bike to class.

But yeah, having a car would definitely be a big help.

[Stormlight]

8/100 :lol:

[Anastasia Beaverhausen]

What, you can't walk to Belgium, Germany, or France?

(Srsly though, I thought Lux would be pedestrian-friendly)

[Stormlight]

Yeah, but I live in a small town with basically nowhere to walk to.

Oh, and also: :glare:

[Watser?]

Note: City-Go-Round currently covers all transit agencies in the US, and is working on expanding internationally.

In other words my score is useless because it didn't even notice the train station (with bus station right next to it) that is a 5 minute walk.

[Chris Porter]

This is odd, I just thought to do that walk-ability site a couple days ago, after we took a bike ride pretty much all over town. Kenosha's walk-ability index from where I live is 65/100, and if we lived closer to Sheridan, it would probably be higher. (44% of Kenosha residents have a higher Walk Score.)

[teasasue]

Walk Score 0 Out of 100 Car-Dependent

is what mine said

[JoeP]

Get Your Walk Score - A Walkability Score For Any Address (www.walkscore.com)

Me: any address? :plotting: I'll try mine, then come back and post snarky comments about US-centric web sites.
* JoeP tries his address
Score 17 Out of 100 Car-Dependent
Me: OK then. :blush: Good coverage ... and accurate enough.

I don't know if it factors in things like Johannesburg City Parks' security advice not to walk on marked trails with less than 6 adults in a group.

Where I used to live in Bath (http://maps.google.co.uk/maps?f=q&source=s_q&hl=en&geocode=&q=weston+park+west,+bath&sll=51.560077,-0.146556&sspn=0.010832,0.042272&ie=UTF8&hq=&hnear=Weston+Park+W,+Bath,+Avon+BA1+4AR,+United+Kingdom&z=15): 58 out of 100 (Mrs JoeP got along fine without a car)
Where I used to live in London (http://maps.google.co.uk/maps?f=q&source=s_q&hl=en&geocode=&q=62+Croftdown+Road,+london&sll=51.560525,-0.145777&sspn=0.010832,0.042272&ie=UTF8&hq=&hnear=62+Croftdown+Rd,+London+NW5+1EN,+United+Kingdom&ll=51.560077,-0.146556&spn=0.010832,0.042272&z=15): 87 out of 100

[maddog]

35/100 Poor walkability IMO. It was a big mistake to purposely make "housing developments" in suburbia with NO SHOPS and nothing you could walk to anywhere nearby.

#2509

[Dingfod]

Where I live now: 2/100
Where I last lived in Utah: 31/100
Where I lived in Colorado: 34/100
Where I lived in Wyoming: 12/100
Where I lived in Northwest Oklahoma: 11/100
Where I want to live: 0/100

I guess I've never lived anywhere all that walkable.

[Janet]

I'm really surprised I got a 51/100 in Flint. I suspect it's because they classified the party store two blocks away as a supermarket. Also they have a pharmacy I've never heard of that doesn't exist .27 miles away. I know for a fact is doesn't exist because the address they seem to think it has is actually one of our library's branches, or possibly the dry cleaner next door to it.

[wildernesse]

68 (somewhat walkable) in Houston, TX. It's about right, even though most of the things that they list as being close to us are not places we are going to go for what they listed. (I'm not "shopping" at M.D. Anderson Cancer Center, even in their outpatient pharmacy.) Nothing is right next door to us, but LOTS of things are within a mile of us and there are plenty of safe routes to them. Edt: We have a 75 for our transit score. We live a short walk from one of the transit hubs, which is why there are 23 available routes near us.

We only have one car these days, but we have lots of options so it isn't an inconvenience. Most of the places I want to go are near the rail line--when it wasn't so hot, I walked, but it is a little warm here now. The great thing about Houston is that other than the middle of the summer, it is easy to walk around here because it is SO flat.

Our home in Raleigh was 28 (car-dependent). In Athens, it was 25. Neither of those was too bad, though, because we lived on a bus line and we could have walked to a grocery store and a couple of restaurants within a mile. We basically lived as a one-car household in Athens, too.

I grew up in a 0, and I would live in a 0 again because there are lots of good things that go along with that, imo. But, if we're living in town, we like having at least SOME options other than our car.

[freemonkey]

5/100 while the average for my town is 58/100 and 99% of residents have a higher walkabilty score

[Qingdai]

I got a 68 out of 100, which they had a couple of businesses that are no longer in business listed. They also listed a malt liquor serving mini-store as a grocery and a lumber stroe as a shopping experience. How often do I go shopping for 2 by fours?

[Demimonde]

That site bugs me, it never is accurate for my hood, which they list as 58/100. They ignore most of the hispanic groceries (RACISM!) and don't count any of the non profit, galleries or music venues as entertainment. A cineplex is not the only means of entertainment.

Also I guess that to them if it is close to a mile it is marked down or something. Because in all categories we have at least five within a mile and most residents walk to some or all of them. Do we have longer legs or something? Or is it the influance of Mexican walking distance? I dunno, I can't see how they score it even with the things they over looked.

On another note, everytime I see the name of the site, I read it as Walkabilly and LOL thinking of Barbara Walters saying Rockabilly.

[lisarea]

Me too with Demi.

A few years ago, it was entirely missing the strip mall just yards from our door. Now, it seems to know about the pizza and burrito shops (owned by CRACKERS), but it's still not seeing the dry cleaners (Chinese, I think), the convenience store (Korean), or the liquor store (Eritrean). So yes, the racism is p clear, I think.

It's also missing a whole bunch of other shit, plus it lists corporate headquarters for the Ball Corporation as a bookstore, and an apartment complex as entertainment. As I believe our own livius drusus would say, "Woooo HOOOO!"

[Adam]

60/100

Haven't we done this before?

One thing it doesn't (and can't) really take into account is whether or not a person actually uses the particular local establishments. Like, yes, there are five banks within a mile and a half of my house, but none of them are my credit union, so that doesn't really help me, does it, website?

ETA: It has all the noncracker stores in my neighborhood on there.

[erimir]

I'm pretty sure we did do this before.

[lisarea]

I'm pretty sure we did do this before.

[One for Sorrow]

Wow... only 3/100 in our current house. We're right off a highway, so I guess we can't walk too far without becoming road kill.

Back home in my redneck mountain town of Grants Pass, OR it was a little better: 11/100.

The house we're trying to rent in Charlotte is 35/100, which is lower than the Charlotte average of 44/100. I can't speak to the accuracy of the results, though, since I don't really know the area.

[Ensign Steve]

Did I know you were from Grant's Pass? I love that quiet little redneck mountain town. :aww: I used to drive through it on my way to Grandma's in Crescent City nearly every Christmas.

[biochemgirl]

We're a 0 here. Not surprising. My parents' house is also a 0. I'm pretty sure all of Iowa is a 0.

[Doctor X]

Yeah, but I live in a small town with basically nowhere to walk to.

Well you can walk:

http://thevacationgals.com/wp-content/uploads/2008/08/denver-aug-2008-434.jpg

it is just not recommended.

Might . . . break something.

--J.D.

[Stormlight]

TAHT'S NOT EVEN ME!!!