In the Sunday NYT Magazine:
Last summer, a trio of Seattle software developers started walkscore.com, which calculates the number of potential destinations within walking distance of any given address and then produces a rating. If your neighborhood scores 90 or above, you can easily live there without a car; if it scores under 25, you’ll be driving to the backyard.
I entered a couple of random addresses in Alameda. As expected, neighborhoods in the vicinity of Webster and Park St have high walkscores (85 and 94, respectively), while it was significantly lower (40-50s) for Bay Farm.
Go ahead, lookup your Walk Scores!
April 21, 2008 at 1:40 pm |
Wow! my address on Everett gets a 97! well, I probably already knew I could walk to nearly everything, but this is a very cool little program.
June 17, 2008 at 5:19 pm |
I can’t put a whole lot of stock in this widget since it counts Little Caesar’s as our closest restaurant and a liquor store as our closest grocery. [It also lists the dollar store as a grocery -- all righty then!]