Comments on: WALKSCORE: Calculate Your Neighborhood’s Walkability!

By: greenitnow

greenitnow — Sat, 23 May 2009 18:42:43 +0000

Darya – that is the problem, dont you understand? It is not sustainable and hardly livable. Walkable communities exist and people want to live there and not drive when they can walk or bike. That is sustainable. Drive score only enforces the dinosaur mentality of non-green, non-sustainable lifestyles.

By: Darya

Darya — Sat, 10 Nov 2007 13:18:30 +0000

I can’t argue that walk score is convenient, but nowadays more and more people drive cars and they are interested also in drive score. This type of service you can find on http://www.fizber.com. Drive Score shows a map of what establishments are in a property’s neighborhood and calculates a Drive Score based on the number of places within a convenient driving distance. Homes are often located in an area where restaurants, libraries, grocery stores, hospitals and other businesses are easier to get to by car than on foot.

By: Why not walk?

Why not walk? — Thu, 06 Sep 2007 12:12:53 +0000

[...] Walkscore: Calculate Your Neighborhood’s Walkability at Inhabitat [...]

By: The Daily Sprout | GreenFace

The Daily Sprout | GreenFace — Thu, 23 Aug 2007 15:50:00 +0000

[...] Check out this web site that allows you to score the ‘walk score’ of addresses — Inhabitat, and [...]

By: Sherwood Johnson

Sherwood Johnson — Wed, 22 Aug 2007 17:31:21 +0000

How can they IGNORE PUBLIC TRANSPORTATION?! This dramatically extends the range one can “walk” and it runs anyway. It also dramatically impacts the location a person would be willing to live without (or even with) a car. Accuracy issues aside, this renders the site nearly useless – just a fun gimmick. A neat idea that needs to finish the job.

By: Bryce

Bryce — Wed, 22 Aug 2007 16:57:18 +0000

This excellent concept could definitely use a bit of updating and refinement in version 2.0. That said, it completely confirmed what I already knew about the Midwestern metro area where I have lived for years. The home I’m in now is not in a walkable place. The home I’m moving to in 2 weeks is twice as walkable as the place I’m presently living.

It is one of many useful tools for those who are house or apartment hunting.

By: Ben N

Ben N — Wed, 22 Aug 2007 15:55:07 +0000

Ditto. I get an great score for a suburban area (80/100), but it includes a grocery chain that isn’t there anymore, and doesn’t include the year-old speakeasy theater half a mile away. Or, for that matter, the horsetrack. It also classifies a 2-storey Target as a pharmacy. In the end, we are all at the mercy of Google.

By: Ulrike

Ulrike — Wed, 22 Aug 2007 15:40:09 +0000

It seemed fairly accurate for my neighborhood, but the program cannot distinguish between roads with sidewalks and roads without. It thinks it’s perfectly acceptable to take a short stroll along a 4 lane highway.

By: Nick Simpson

Nick Simpson — Wed, 22 Aug 2007 12:23:52 +0000

I’m with Angelo – VERY rough around the edges. Doesn’t include half of the local shops and services that I have nearby and therefore the area gets a poor score. Whatever database it’s using needs some heavy updating.

If it weren’t for this though this tool would be great

By: Earth2Tech » Blog Archive The Daily Sprout «

Earth2Tech » Blog Archive The Daily Sprout « — Wed, 22 Aug 2007 01:39:46 +0000

[...] Check out this web site that allows you to score the ‘walk score’ of addresses — Inhabitat, and [...]

By: Angelo

Angelo — Tue, 21 Aug 2007 20:16:13 +0000

Be careful with this site. A lot of us around the office checked out where we live, and where we would like to live in town. I think two really big misses is that it doesn’t take into account public transportation (bus or light rail), and it’s at the mercy of what businesses have been added to Google Maps. (A 7-11 doesn’t really count in my book for a local “grocery” store.)

Then there are the things that are less tangible: Safety. Is a neighborhood safe?

It’s very fun and an ingenious idea, but still very rough around the edges.