How walkable is your neighborhood?

[Tricialen]

Wow I suppose because I live in the country, it's a 20 walkability....But it's a beautiful walk

 

[Misty_Morning]

17%

But, I think my neighborhood is VERY walkable...in fact I went for a walk this morning with my Dad.

See, I consider a place walkable if you don't havta worry about getting mugged, raped or murdered.

I notice they don't use any crime statistics for their calculation.

 

[impressive]

0%

Can't get any lower.

 

[R. Richard]

I did a check on my meighborhood and found that the distances are apparently calculated from the driving distance and are sometimes wrong.

The nearest grocery store is at least a half mile nearer if I walk over and go in the back, instead of driving over and parking in the front. Similarly, the nearest park is just across the street if I use the back gate, but over a mile if I drive.

 

[TE999]

9 out of 100. Totally car dependent. But I knew that.

Half their data on distances to local amenities...and the amenities themselves.. are out of date or wrong.

 

[DeeZire]

That site is totally bogus. I have a tattoo parlor, a Fascinations porn store and a totally nude dancing club within .7mi of my house, and none of them showed up. I also have a green grass park within a block of my house, which is a great place for johns to bring hookers for a BJ in the front seat of the car. They also missed the house full of coeds down the street - the gals that are too bimbo'd out to put up a curtain in their bathroom window because it faces the alley and they think no one can see them.

No wonder I only got a 63.

 

[OhMissScarlett]

I actually got a 0% as well. As far as walking for exercise, it's a great place, plenty of space to walk my dog without worrying about traffic. But, otherwise, if my car broke down, I'd be screwed. Oh, well, that's the price you pay to live in a rural area. The benefit, of not having to live elbow to elbow with other humans, to me, far outweighs the drawbacks.

 

[Shwenn]

37%

Under Libraries is something called "Allied Waste Services". That can't be right.

I must say, walking to the grocery in this neighborhood I get hit on more than I ever did when I was single and going to clubs. I don't know what it is. Men stop their cars next to me, offer me a ride then ask for my number when I decline.

While a strange man offering you a ride is pretty creepy, it's well balanced by getting to say that I, quite literally, stop traffic.

 

[Selena_Kitt]

9 out of 100. Totally car dependent. But I knew that.

Half their data on distances to local amenities...and the amenities themselves.. are out of date or wrong.

And they're assuming you actually need to go to those amenities in the first place!

 

[OhMissScarlett]

On the bright side, it did tell me that there's a bar one mile from my house. You just have to cut through corn fields and cross a small creek to get there. Good to know.

 

[freshface]

Mine came in at 72%, but they make some very...interesting...calls about what's around me. I live downtown in a German city, so I would have expected a higher score. I have a bookstore down the street, and it lists the closest one as 31 km away. There are three pharmacies and two drug stores on my block, but it says the nearest pharmacy is 33 km away.

And I'm with Jen. A bakery is not a grocery store. But still an interesting site.

 

[NoJo]

New York 100% -- well, that depends on your definition of New York, and of Walking. Whenever I visit my friends in Manhattan, I walk from 138th Street in Harlem where they live, down to the Battery. The experience is of roaring traffic and car fumes, noise and grime, and innumerable pedestrian crossings you have to wait at. A few minutes' respite in the predominantly flat and dull Central Park, then back to all that traffic and noise.

Whereas, from my home in London, I can make the 7 mile walk to the Millenium Wheel in the heart of town walking mainly through quiet leafy park and heath land. And cafes, pubs, shops, restaurants and public toilets are never more than 5 or 10 minutes away. So for me London should get closer to 100% and Manhattan, much as I love it, should get more like 50%.

Edited to add: I've just come back from a three-hour, sixteen mile run through London, where less than half an hour was spent on noisy roads.

 

[SlickTony]

My nabe scored 43%--car-dependent.

I don't think their info is very accurate. However, it's going to be a hell of a lot more accurate in a few minutes. You can update that thing.

Well, they now have all the things I put in there. But the score didn't rise.

 

[BOSTONFICTIONWRITER]

Hey! I scored a 97% in my Boston Neighborhood of the Back Bay and Beacon Hill. Not bad. I was figuring I'd receive a lower score.

Hmm, maybe I should go for a walk...after I finish this drink and cigarette.

Go ahead, Polo, go walk yourself. I'll, uhm, catch up with you later. Watch out for the cars when crossing Beacon Street.

 

[neonlyte]

Doesn't work too well on my Portuguese address Given that I live opposite a park and next door to a food market, it suggested I needed to drive 7km for both The UK address was fairly accurate 37%

 

[redpaint]

Oh, until it loaded, I thought it meant as in safeness. I live in a rural area. There is no walkability here.

I thought the same thing too. But still got a 38%

 

[Goldie Munro]

80% for me - but like the rest of you not sure what that 'walkablity' really means!

 

[sadangel]

Yes, I'm digging up an old thread now that I have my own neighborhood to rate. Mine gets a 32% Now you all know why I take the bus everywhere!!

 

[_Lynn_]

Mine got a 29.

 

[Austin8]

Mine got a 68

I do walk lot's of places
but, if your goin' to the big libary, you
better pack a lunch...

 

[_Lynn_]

Mine got a 68

I do walk lot's of places
but, if your goin' to the big libary, you
better pack a lunch...

To walk to the library two blocks away I have to cross a five-lane road.
Speed limit is 50mph, and there isn't a traffic light at my corner.

 

[JAMESBJOHNSON]

Rob Lives At A Flophouse Downtown.

 

[matriarch]

67%.
Strange.

Though, it is very hilly, although it's urban, and only half a mile from the sea, the streets are very tightly housed, parking is a nightmare, but once you get up the hills on which the town is built, the pathways are easy to walk down to the town centre which runs along the coast. Great walking, if a tad tiring.

 

[glynndah]

Apparently my address doesn't exist. If I go to "town", I have my choice of shopping at a lumberyard or a Western Auto, though. That rates a 12.

 

[Handley_Page]

It does not work for UK.