Walk Score

I read an article in my World Changing email that I received earlier this week about Walk Score and calculating how pedestrian/transit friendly different areas of cities are. Below is a transit heat map picture of Boston on the left, San Francisco in the middle and Seattle on the right. The brighter the green, the more walking and transit friendly the area is and the darker orange/red it is means it is less friendly and requires more individual vehicle transportation.

You can calculate your own score for addresses you input on the Walk Score website. My old address had a score of 88, which was good. My new score is a 91 and called a "walker's paradise" so I am pretty stoked about that. I thought it was interesting that 22% of Seattle residents had a higher score still, I guess that means Seattle is pretty good for walking and transit.

Here is a link to another World Changing article from the past about this walk scoring.

Seattle was the #6 most walkable city on their ranking. San Francisco was #1