97 out ot 100. .54 mile to farthest place (a park) from my house, .07 to the nearest grocery store (about a block)
Address not found. I can fill in the score without the site. No local anything and no sidewalks with heavy traffic of all types of vehicles. Zero.
I do have lots of wild areas I can walk almost alone, so not rating it like they do I give that a walk score of 70.
- But then that’s why I put up with this place :D.
38 - but it seems to think I can walk directly across the bay. And frankly, I have better things to do than walk 8 miles each way to go shopping.
92/100. I could have told them that. Incredibly walkable. Fifty coffee shops. library, two grocery stores, thousands of restaurants if you like sushi…
Huh. My score was “highly walkable.” So it’s just counting what’s technically within a certain distance, as the crow flies. I’d have to scale cement barriers, cut through wire fences, walk along and across an interstate highway and several local six-lane highways to get to these places. Maybe they’re thinking I’ll slog/swim the “short cut” through a mile of swamp. This is all going to play havoc with my groceries.
And yes, I hate this suburban hell hole. It’s everything that’s wrong about modern America.
I like it that way.
I live at a 51. The weird thing was the list of nearby schools. My monastery runs a school. It’s on the same piece of property as the monastery. It shares the same address. I walk a leisurely two minutes to school, where I work, every morning. Apparently, it’s half a mile away and there is a nursery school that’s closer. Closer than the same address?
It returned an 11 for my address. Probably typical for this area.
The city offered to put in sidewalks in our area (when they resurfaced the streets). The residents voted overwhelmingly against it. Didn’t want riff-raff walking through their lawns.
My home scored 12, but this is nonsense. The distances seem to be as the crow flies. It gives the nearest bar as 1.25 miles, but if you actually stick to the sidewalk, it is 2.5 miles. It says 0.33 miles to the nearest movie theatre, but two problems there: it is 3.8 miles if you don’t want to walk through other people’s yards and wade across a creek, and it is not a movie theatre anyway - it is a company that provides services to movie theatres.
And the nearest “restaurant” is actually a private address from which someone sells Juice Plus.
They pretty clearly do not. I couldn’t check my address, not being in the States and all, but for laughs I checked my parents’ house and my sister’s house. Sister’s house scored a nudge higher, though only a 29 rather than a 22… but her house is along a busy road, with no sidewalks, that has dump trucks running shuttle traffic to a limestone quarry. Anyone who tried to walk along that road would promptly be squished like a bug.
My parents’ house is not only not near any services worth mentioning, but it’s a one mile walk to the nearest bus stop, which sees four buses a day, fewer on weekends. Yeah, I’d call that “car dependent”.
(My house would probably score fairly high.)
The house I live in now is 75, which is pretty silly as the grocery store is a block away, and in case you can’t find what you were looking for there, there are three more within a 15 minute walk. There are several small restaurants, coffee shops, banks, video rental stores, liquor stores, and drugstores all within 15 minutes, and at least one no more than two blocks away.
My parents’ house gets a 72, which is way too high when you consider the nearest grocery store is a 20 minute walk away, but they list a convenience store as the nearest one.
82, but it definitely missed a few things, but I didn’t expect it to list every business on Mont-Royal (and the large park across the street is not a full 0.7km away!), and said park does cause some businesses to be farther away than the software seems to like, but we’re young and healthy and there are a bunch of things that are considered walkable to us just outside the radius shown on the map.
88 for my current apartment, in an urban setting in Hudson County, New Jersey. Bookstore and Movie Theatre are the farthest away (at the local mall, a 25 minute walk). I survived without a car at my apartment for 10 years.
My girlfriend’s place (where I’ll probably move fulltime soon) is a 52. They get several things wrong - they miss the Italian restaurant that’s 0.2 miles away. Instead they list a McDonalds at .54 miles that is actually a distribution center, not a restaurant. They miss a bar that is within a mile and list one that is almost two miles away.
And then for bookstore - they list one 0.2 miles away which simply doesn’t exist. Perhaps it was an old tenant in a storefornt that’s now a giftshop… the next closest bookstore is a Christian bookstore, followed by the bookstore on the Palisades Parkway in Harriman State Park. There isn’t a real bookstore within 15 miles.
Yeah, this thing has serious issues.
Schools in my case include 2 karate dojos across the street in the same shopping center and call a gas station mini mart a grocery store.
Everything you would actually use is 4th-5th down the list for distance.
But yes, the thing is seriously screwy.
Does it show you what you’re “missing?” I’d be hard pressed to think of anything that’s not within “walking distance” of my place. I was surprised not to get a higher score.
Does it even take into account how close these things are to your residence? I mean, in less than 50 paces from my front door, I can get to the movies, a bookstore, a restaurant, a toy store, and the activewear store they count a “fitness center.” (The Y is about 3 blocks away.) I’d hit just about everything else on the list within a 2-block radius, including the train station. Hell, there’s even a Home Depot 1.4 miles away! So does my post office that’s less than a tenth of a mile away count the same as your post office that’s 2 miles away?
Billdo is on the upper west side of NYC.
Apparently the closest “clothing and music” store to here is a place called Buffalo Welding Supply. And I suppose it would be an easy walk away if you didn’t have to walk across a river to get there.
I’ve lived in places that range from 0 to 98 (the latter in Oxford, UK, which I was suprised didn’t rate at 100, as the farthest walk was 0.4 miles).
Forgot to say: In spite of the problems with the execution, I love the fact that this tool exists! Walkability is one of those things that people don’t even realize is important to them. Hopefully this tool will be improved, and it will help reinforce the positive benefits of living in a walkable neighborhood.
And for the many people who really don’t want to live in a walkable place–that’s cool too. But people should be aware of what they’re doing when they choose where to live. It’s ironic that many people who live out in the boondocks can actually get to a supermarket or hospital faster than others who live in the middle of a faceless suburban sprawl.
- I’m in a pre WW2 neighborhood in a town of ±80,000, about 8 blocks (3/4 mi) from downtown and a modest commercial strip.
I find it quite convenient, but then again, I seldom walk for errands. I usually bike anywhere within a mile or so radius (within which many, many needs can be met).
Best feature: hospital/ER, 5 blocks east, 2 blocks south.
15 for where I’m living now, and I believe it. I hate having nothing walkable. Sure, there’s a Starbucks only about a mile away, but I’d have to walk on the shoulder of the highway to get there. To do it using roads with sidewalks would be 3 miles.
My place back in the Montreal suburbs scores an 88. I miss that.