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What's your Walk Score?

I think my neighbourhood is very walkable.

It is only 1.25km to my nearest shopping centre (which includes a pharmacy, dry cleaners, newsagency etc), we have a DVD shop, a bakery, a Pizza Hut, hairdresser all within a kilometre. The beach is about a kilometer away. I have a small park about 100 metres from my home and a bus-stop about 240 metres from home.

I sometime walk to a bigger shopping centre which is 3.5km away. The local library as well as the local cinema are located near this shopping centre, as are many other facilities.

The nearest post office is 2km away but I tend to use the one across the road from the bigger shopping centre.

The only downside of walking around my neighbourhood is that it isn't totally flat.
 
My neighborhood got a big two zero. The "bookstore" is an Adult store, "school" as RCMA Migrant Headstart, "Park" is a community center, they do have places for kids to play but I don't know if I'd call it a park.
 
Thanks MissChicken. Just for curiosity I tried Hobart (just downtown) and it apparently does work for countries other than those advertised on the site (USA, Canada, UK). It just may not work as well depending on how well-represented the businesses are on google maps. I'm pretty sure that the city center of Vienna, Austria isn't actually just "somewhat walkable" with a score of 69! :)

I was in Hobart about 3 years ago and it did seem quite walkable, despite the hills as you say. I actually looked at some fossils over in your area (I think you live on the east side of the harbor if I remember your previous posts), at Bellerive Point.
 
Apartment:

Walk Score:
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35 out of 100 — Car-Dependent

It's all uphill. Sidewalks are crap.

The House I grew up in:
Walk Score:
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3 out of 100 — Car-Dependent

The town I was stuck in today when my car ran out of gas and had to walk an hour and a half to find civilization:

Walk Score:
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0 out of 100 — Car-Dependent

FML.
 
PlixTixiplik said:
Thanks MissChicken. Just for curiosity I tried Hobart (just downtown) and it apparently does work for countries other than those advertised on the site (USA, Canada, UK). It just may not work as well depending on how well-represented the businesses are on google maps. I'm pretty sure that the city center of Vienna, Austria isn't actually just "somewhat walkable" with a score of 69! :)

I was in Hobart about 3 years ago and it did seem quite walkable, despite the hills as you say. I actually looked at some fossils over in your area (I think you live on the east side of the harbor if I remember your previous posts), at Bellerive Point.
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For the last year I have lived at Howrah (on the hillside not the beach side of this suburb), a suburb that borders Bellerive. Before that I lived in Mornington (pretty much on the edge of Warrane/Mornington). Tese suburbs also boorder Bellerive.
 
45/100 (Car dependent) for my current address. News to me since I don't have a car and have seemed to survive so far. :p Seriously, some stuff is nearby, and other places are easily bus-accessible. But I guess they count that as "car dependent".

85/100 for my new apartment downtown.
 
74/100- Very Walkable

Mostly correct for downtown Minneapolis--but November thru March/April when it's freezing outside, I'll drive instead of wade through the snow!
 
It's a fun site - allowing for mistakes in calculations that come from the fact that it's using maps so walking through the mall to get to the supermarket at the other end isn't factored in - it could be a useful way to get a sense of a community you are moving to.

As a random example (it being the first foreign address I thought of!) Weta's Stone Street studios gets a score of 57.

I love things like this - looking at maps and communities in different places.
 
Got a score of 97. I'm not surprised, a lot of things are nearby, and they are often duplicated within yards of each other.
 
Walk Score:
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48 out of 100 — Car-Dependent

Sounds about right, I live near an airport (almost on) and there isn't much around it, but since I try to do my job somewhat well, at least I've got stuff around it to go to for rmy peeps.

On review of my results, I'd say I should have a lower score because some of the things listed really are not "shops" or stores at all, but really Maintenance Buildings the airport calls 'shops', like our Maintenance Shop, etc.
 
54 out of 100 - Somewhat Walkable

And I live in a town with a lot of hills. Bleh. Not that I've done a lot of walking lately, with all the damned rain.
 
My neighbourhood gets a 50, but google maps is missing a lot of stuff including a very large park which cuts my walk to most amenities (also mostly missing) to about half the distances they show.
 
Mine is 73/100 which I totally disagree with even as someone who enjoys walking. My "local" supermarket is close to where I used to go to school according to the map.

It was fine when I was at school, but they've changed all the roads around there since and now you'd be walking part of the journey on roads that don't have pavements alongside them.
 
"29 - car dependent" which is a pain since I don't have one.

OTOH, it also claims the nearest grocery store is Morrisons a mile away, but in fact there's a Co-op and a Sainsbury's much closer than that.

It also thinks the Deighton Bar Post Office is... a bar.
 
It seems to think I live in Australia. These are not the roads you're looking for. I shall try again.
 
I just realised that PlixTixiplik informed me that this DOES work for Hobart.

My address only got a 29 but it totally overlooked the nearest primary school and nearest high school. It also didn't realise that the nearest bar is in the Shoreline Hotel, nor that there is a book store in my second closest shopping centre.

It also had a few things being a bit closer than they are though they might be that close (as the crow flies) but I would have to walk through bushland and over quite steep hills.
 
flamingliberal said:
But that's your problem and utterly irrelevant to the neighborhood itself, which again, is what this website is interested in. Also, given the distance they're measuring (under a mile), its likely no faster to drive than it is to walk.
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Yeah, I know that in downtown Ottawa, driving from where I am to the grocery store would be a pain in the ass, what with all the one-way streets, slow traffic and the difficulty of finding a good spot to park. On the other hand, I can walk there in less than 10 minutes. Can't argue with that.

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Canadave said:
My current apartment's walkscore is 94, which has a lot to do with living somewhere that looks like this. Wouldn't trade it for anything else, either. :techman:
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Hmm. I think they must deduct points for crime or something, as my area is far denser than that...
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Downtown Ottawa is deceptively dense. We don't really have any super-tall towers, but we tend to have a lot of medium-rise construction, so we have a lot of stuff packed into our core areas, even if they don't look like Manhatten or downtown Toronto.
 
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