Most and Least Walker Friendly Cities: Rankings
By Nick July 21, 2008
Walking. A forgotten lost art in this age of automobiles is making a comeback with everything else fuel efficient - especially since its free. Burning a few calories while saving some money and enjoying the outdoors is a good choice for many city dwellers, especially those in walker friendly cities rated by Walk Score, a newish site dedicated to rating how walker friendly neighborhoods and cities are in the US.
Walk score is a nifty site rating cities with heat maps on how walkable they are, and it also has a google maps overlay that has attractions, restaurants, and shops listed. For the most walkable US cities, Walk score rated the largest 40 US cities, and leading in the walker friendly caregory are..
- San Francisco
- New York
- Boston
- Chicago
- Philadelphia
No real surprise I suppose. For the least walkable, walk friendly cities, look toward the Southeast:
- Jacksonville
- Nashville
- Charlotte
I was slightly surprised by the list because my city, Minneapolis, was not listed, and being one of the most populous regions of the Midwest I was surprised. Well turns out, the city itself just outside the top 40 largest (375,000 people), but Minneapolis is very, very walkable and walker friendly, and has a score of 95, which is the best out of all the top 40 cities. The lesser half of the Twin Cities, St. Paul, comes in with a score of 91 too!
So with a score of 95/100, I’m re-crowning Minneapolis, MN as the most walkable city in in the US.
But nationwide, to stereotype, the coasts are walker friendly, the Midwest and South are not, but that really is not surprise because a lot of it is based on population density. In suburban residential sprawl, being walker friendly is not a priority of local governments because it’s nearly impossible. So how does your city fair?
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Yes, walk score is real a good idea! But why only walk score?How often do we walk nowadays? More and more people drive cars.I have also tried one more service at http://drivescore.fizber.com/. It is called Drive Score.With the help of it you can see how close establishments are by car. Try! It’s really a perfect idea!
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I think you’re missing the point there, nelly.