What's your walk score?

[shootingstar]

Ours is 85. Yes, people come to our neighbourhood to walk, bike and hang out in the park, waterside area.

I found it funny that according to the rating, we were close to..a medical library. It must be a private medical library or the hospital library which only hospital staff can use because I'm not aware of any other one. We are 15 min. walk from Vancouver's main Central library that looks like the Roman Colseum.

We live at the foot of 30 kms. bike and pedestrian path. Here I am way down on the bike below on the path, a photo taken from our balcony.

http://www3.telus.net/public/hjbecke...s/image018.htm

True we are 5 min. walk from closest coffee shop, another 10 min. elsewhere still tons more other cafes..and restaurants..the community centre is 5 min. away ...so is doctor, dentist, my bank, etc. 15 min. walk to commuter train. Next year we will have another commuter train station in a different direction that will take you out to the airport from downtown. That train bridge...will feature a bike path deck....

This is why we like to live not far from downtown or in downtown. Remember we see mountains and ocean while we are downtown.

No question, to move from Toronto to suburbs in Vancouver would have been abit of a mistake.

[BleeckerSt_Girl]

We live at the foot of 30 kms. bike and pedestrian path. Here I am way down on the bike below on the path, a photo taken from our balcony.

http://www3.telus.net/public/hjbecke...s/image018.htm

Oooohhh what beautiful bike paths you have!!! I love that photo of you looking so tiny and happy way down there!

Here are our luxurious "bike paths" in rural New York state- two lane highways with often virtually no shoulders at all- look in back of me, it's rather typical for around here. Lots of potholes too. That's our driveway on the left.... ....and people kid me about wearing screaming yellow jerseys...
my road

[tygab]

gah. apparently, mine is a 0 as in zero.

But the walk score apparently does not take into account the fact that I could bike to lots of places with fresh local food (in the interest of disclosure, I have not actually shopped this way yet), and can easily run to town hall and the library (which I have done). And that there is a multi use trail network in the woods behind my house. Scoring seems highly geared toward urban areas with businesses.

[colby]

Darn, the maps are old... my street's not on it. We've been on real google maps for something like a year now.

I picked a nearby street that is on the map, and it scored a 23. Doesn't really take into account that within a mile is the farmer's market in summers, there are decent sidewalks and walking paths (and bike lanes), the few bus stops we do have are within reasonable walking distance (half a mile at most) and it's really pretty flat here. That said, there are some things you can't get within our few mile radius, either, and said public transportation isn't very extensive at all. But hey, we have a home depot now... that's pretty handy for walkers, right?

Someone just needs to come up with a Cycling Score site now...

[kelownagirl]

gah. apparently, mine is a 0 as in zero.

But the walk score apparently does not take into account the fact that I could bike to lots of places with fresh local food (in the interest of disclosure, I have not actually shopped this way yet), and can easily run to town hall and the library (which I have done). And that there is a multi use trail network in the woods behind my house. Scoring seems highly geared toward urban areas with businesses.

Thanks, I feel better now.

[tygab]

glad to oblige

in seriousness, if a neighborhood is full of all sorts of stores and businesses, that may be great, but I'm not sure it's any more "green" and local. And it looks like the walk distance is like 1.5 miles or something.

Where I live I can get meat, veggies, fruit and eggs anywhere ranging from my backyard to a big farmstand a few miles away. This food has traveled extremely minimally, and has little packaging, yet this is not a factor in this method.

Don't get me wrong, walking and running are good. So is biking. So is horse riding... and I see a lot of all three

[dex]

72/100 here. But a lot of what it's showing as walkable is perfectly fine for getting *to* those places, but straight uphill (or >20 flights of stairs set into the hillside) to get home. Maybe I should move to the bottom of my hill...heh.

[Eden]

72/100 here. But a lot of what it's showing as walkable is perfectly fine for getting *to* those places, but straight uphill (or >20 flights of stairs set into the hillside) to get home. Maybe I should move to the bottom of my hill...heh.

wow - a few blocks makes a big difference - I'm pretty sure you live just a little north of me.

[smilingcat]

I must be in heaven!!

Hermosa Beach came up with 95 ya hear 95 And this in carcentric world of Los Angels 'burb.

So cool. yes I do walk to the grocery store (Ralph's on a pinch) I walk to Starbucks if I'm too lazy to go to Java man.

must be two dozen restaurants within walking distance and another 4 or 5 dozen bars. Yes we have a dubious distinction of having the highest concentration of bars in California.

Drug stores, jewelry store, bike shops (BMX only though), and riff raffy places like Ms. so and so fortune teller... A porn shop...

a green belt to walk jog... Several large parks.

well there are downsides here.

smilingcat

[uk elephant]

Checked out the village where I live here in Essex and it only came out at 55. But we don't actually own a car. We walk, cycle or use public transport to get everywhere. Granted it's a small village with only a couple of shops (although the lists they gave were out of date and incomplete), but the bigger city of Colchester is only 5 minutes away on the train, 15 minutes on the bus with a dense city centre largely pedestrianised. And London is only an hour away.

[SadieKate]

6 because, OMG!, the nearest coffee house is 1.01 miles away.

66 for my previous address, yet I drive a whole lot less now because this neighborhood suits my lifestyle better. No more driving long distances every week for mountainbiking, fishing, etc.

It's a pretty weird system that puts "Freedom from Hunger" under Libraries and a storage facility under Clothing & Music.

[KSH]

74 out of 100.

Although, it's not safe. They didn't look at the crime in the area for the ranking.

Just last Sunday 2 guys were walking around the neighborhood, .10 miles from my place... one had a gun and they were robbing people. Right where I usually run, and at the store I go to, to buy food.

So it's only walkable if you have a concealed weapon to protect yourself.

[mydisneydollars]

Mine is 69 out of 100 not to bad

[mudmucker]

Sigh. Score of zero. Well, if I ride the bike to the hardware store or the nearest grocery store it's about a 28 to 30-mile roundtrip - same roads I'd take with the car.

[Fredwina]

My current address is 78 - I walked to the hair salon today and it's a quarter mile to albertson's
Muy old pace in PA gets 15 - I would agree