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Have you seen Walkscore yet? It scores how walkable your house is.
My house got a 75 out of 100. Family Style got a 77, Newton Booth got a 72. If you are so unfortunate as to live at 3218 Yosemite Park Way Elk Grove in Laguna West you would only get a score of 20.
I don’t know about all their picks - I don’t think 7-11 is a grocery store or B Street Theatre is a movie theater, but it is a fun tool!
Steve
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1 Schwags // Aug 1, 2007 at 1:58 am
A couple more fun ones -
The “Friends” house in NYC is the only one I have seen with 100.
President Bush’s Crawford Ranch got a 0.
Bill Gates house got a 6.
800 J in Sac got a 95 - looks like they could use a hardware store downstairs…
2 wburg // Aug 1, 2007 at 12:08 pm
There are some very weird results sometimes…they count a gym in my neighborhood as a restaurant, and Jones & Stokes’ office in the Newton Booth school is listed as a library. My house gets an 82 though, even if I never have dinner at the gym.
3 Jason // Aug 1, 2007 at 1:10 pm
wburg, that gym actually makes a really tasty duck dish: you just have to ask for Vinny and say “gimme the duck”: he’ll then show you to the basement where some numbers are being worked out and your membership card is a Queen of Spades.
4 Zach // Aug 1, 2007 at 1:24 pm
My home at Freeport and Broadway scored an 86. And although some of the top results are a little funny, the next ones on the list are accurate. Both Freeport and Broadway are car-centric and not the friendliest of streets to walk on by any means. But the scale of the homes, shops and the streets is what really makes my neighborhood walkable.
Where this fun little test really goes wrong though, is that it doesn’t follow walkable routes. For example, a friends home in Rocklin is scored in the 70’s because the distance presumes that you can hop a barrier wall and jay-walk across a six lane street to reach a shopping center. When in reality it is over a mile in the opposite direction to navigate through the curving streets following the actual sidewalks. So really, if the Rocklin streets were on a grid pattern, the round trip distance would go from 1.7 miles, to .12 mile.
Here’s a good resource to calculate walking distances: Gmaps Pedometer
5 cindy // Aug 1, 2007 at 3:32 pm
Ya, the scoring seemed a bit wierd. My house only got a 58 and yet almost anything I need is in walking distance. It also depend how much you like to walk. Some people think walking from H and 42nd to 20th and H is a mildly short walk.
6 dan // Aug 1, 2007 at 6:34 pm
82 here.
I think some weird results are okay, cause they are generally still places other than houses that you might want to walk to - even if they aren’t “restaurants” or “cinemas”.
7 E // Aug 3, 2007 at 4:24 pm
Our house got an 88. I’ll admit though that I don’t walk as much as I should, even though I spend most of my waking hours worrying about walkability and transit accessibility. The fact is, I like to bike around midtown/downtown - it’s the best way to get around! And having a wife who is 9 months pregnant, well, walking or biking everywhere just isn’t an option.
8 LIUS // Aug 4, 2007 at 2:14 am
91 for me. Plus there is a ton of stuff missing off their list of places
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