Is your neighborhood walk-friendly?
- anniemcu
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Mine scored zero.
They must have gotten wind of the poisonous snake that wanted to share the walk with daughter youngest and I a couple of days ago. Ah well.
They must have gotten wind of the poisonous snake that wanted to share the walk with daughter youngest and I a couple of days ago. Ah well.
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Just playing around with it a little more. I'm not sure how they figure the distances, but it's not just how the crow flies. It told me the nearest school is .22 miles away - I didn't realize my backyard was that big! (the school is directly behind my backyard).
And I don't know if it's a matter of the fire numbers we use in our county, but when I put in my work address that has a fire number, it had it on the right road but not even close to where it actually is (though this is a problem with many mapping/direction websites too).
And for some reason it renamed our library - it's the Aram library, but according to this it's the John Gant Library (unless there's a secret library I don't know about in the same location as our public library).
And I don't know if it's a matter of the fire numbers we use in our county, but when I put in my work address that has a fire number, it had it on the right road but not even close to where it actually is (though this is a problem with many mapping/direction websites too).
And for some reason it renamed our library - it's the Aram library, but according to this it's the John Gant Library (unless there's a secret library I don't know about in the same location as our public library).
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Me too!!! and I'm happy they can't find me. The only thing anyone walking would find are some cattle,pastures, hay meadows and woods with the occasional wild critter here and yon.Peter Laban wrote:'Address cannot be found'
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My work place in Boston scored a perfect 100.
My home scored a perfect 15. The test is set up to determine the convenience of walking "to" some place as opposed to walking to "be" some place. We are fortunate to live in a beautiful place. Two lane roads, no side walks, walkers everywhere. Lots of water views, marsh veiws, big houses, serious gardens etc. Nothing commerical. We're about half way up what amounts to a 1 mile dead end. This time of year there's an organized group of bikers (non-motorized) riding around almost every weekend. I wonder if seeing sweaty me slogging along behnd the lawn mower spoils their day.
My home scored a perfect 15. The test is set up to determine the convenience of walking "to" some place as opposed to walking to "be" some place. We are fortunate to live in a beautiful place. Two lane roads, no side walks, walkers everywhere. Lots of water views, marsh veiws, big houses, serious gardens etc. Nothing commerical. We're about half way up what amounts to a 1 mile dead end. This time of year there's an organized group of bikers (non-motorized) riding around almost every weekend. I wonder if seeing sweaty me slogging along behnd the lawn mower spoils their day.
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Yes. Apparently the site's raison d'être is to assist someone in gauging the relative necessity of a car in a particular neighborhood, if he/she's in the market for a new place to live. So, what it factors in as important is proximity to businesses and services which you'd otherwise have to drive to.dwinterfield wrote:The test is set up to determine the convenience of walking "to" some place as opposed to walking to "be" some place.
Obviously, if what "walkability" means to you is access to scenic nature trails, or just nearby neighbors, the score your address receives is not necessarily going to reflect that.
Also, obviously, if you relied solely on this website, even for its stated purpose, you might end up with 7-11 as your accessible "grocer."
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Yup, we must be spittin' distance from one another. (Well, isn't everything in downtown Boston?) Actually my true work address is 02111 (right on the common), which scored 98, but when I put in the next zip over 02111 (probably yours?) the score went up to 100. Guess that pesky Boston Common and Gardens green space takes up too much retail acreage making that part of the city less walkabledwinterfield wrote:My work place in Boston scored a perfect 100.
I'm willing to bet Boston also has more students and Doctors per square mile than any other city in the U.S., if not the world.
And oh yeah, it is a very walkable city The downside is the housing cost here
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On top of Gov't Center Garage.Loren wrote:Yup, we must be spittin' distance from one another. (Well, isn't everything in downtown Boston?) Actually my true work address is 02111 (right on the common), which scored 98, but when I put in the next zip over 02111 (probably yours?) the score went up to 100. Guess that pesky Boston Common and Gardens green space takes up too much retail acreage making that part of the city less walkabledwinterfield wrote:My work place in Boston scored a perfect 100.
I'm willing to bet Boston also has more students and Doctors per square mile than any other city in the U.S., if not the world.
And oh yeah, it is a very walkable city The downside is the housing cost here Loren
I believe the student population in the city of Boston is more than 100,000. I don't know if that includes Cambridge. I've heard they have some schools there.