Walk Score - How walkable is your house?

[Thaine]

62 at 66th and Main.  Says the closest park is Holmes Park, despite Arbor Villa Park being less than a block from my house.

[ReutherMonkey]

51: my old house in a Dallas, TX suburb
52: Red Bridge - my old apartment
82: my current condo in midtown

[jimb]

Just caught this thread. Got a whopping 34 for our place in Olathe, and I think they were being generous since everything listed involved crossing a multi-lane arterial.

Our old house in Prairie Village got a 65, mostly due to the close proximity of the PV Shops.  Too bad the thing was falling down around us, because I LOVED the location.

[shinatoo]

New house got a 2.

When i do Ex-urbs, I do it right!

[bahua]

My office: 0

[DanCa]

I got a 31 for my house, but then there's an entire town center with library, grocery, restaurants and who knows what else that will be 2 blocks away, a gym one block and other retail under construction right now.  My score will rise dramatically in the next two years.

[kucer]

62 at 66th and Main.  Says the closest park is Holmes Park, despite Arbor Villa Park being less than a block from my house.

52 at 67th and Main. 

[ignatius]

I wonder how often they update the database. 12th/Grand gets a 91.  It lists Danny Edwards BBQ which no longer exists and has no new places like Jimmy Johns, Planet Sub, Tarrentino's, etc.

12th/Grand should get near 100 after P&L completes and the rest of retail is included.

Looks like Westport/Broadway is the current leader at 97.

[acepiloto]

74 for Quality Hill, 51 for my work in Mission, but that includes many things that are across I35, and a lot of things that I'd have to walk a half mile to cross the train tracks for.

[markf]

63 for my house.  But it lists a bar within a .3 miles of my house.  I got excited.  The Doghouse Bar & Grill at 6109 Main.  Huh?

[kcchief]

1101 Walnut (a/k/a Wallstreet Tower): 91

[Beermo]

At Los Alamos?  Simple basics, both anglo and mexican.  The prepared food is very good and the people working there are humble, inviting and generous.

Ummm, thought of going under the blanket?

a restaurant friend named gabriel who cooks at grinders also works at los alamos. he says the food is very good, especially the menudo. i also have a guy on my crew at work who says the place is pretty good. all he eats is mex fare. he loves chipotle's. he's also from veracruz, so that might explain that.

[Beermo]

62 out of 100.

i live about 55th and n. wyandotte in gladstone. basically at englewood road and old pike road.

the thing i found interesting about the list of places is that there are places listed that i didn't even know existed by my house, but there are also places listed that have been closed for more than 2 years.

[PumpkinStalker]

I got me an 82 at 29th and Oak.  Nice!

[warwickland]

my office in creve coeur, missouri got a 66, and down the street just east of I-270 got a 75. it's actually walkable-in-theory where they retrofitted sidewalks on olive, the autocentric retail and office is fairly dense and sometimes mixed (for a late twentieth century neighborhood), as is the housing (but only talking about multi-family adjacent to olive)... you just don't feel comfortable walking amongst so many automobiles and schizophrenic suburban streetscape or cross the street.

ballas and olive. 75.



119th and metcalf. 77.



and of course,  everyones favorite, east golf road and roselle rd, schaumburg, illinois. 72.



ah, corporate suburbs!

of course, there isn't housing on top of these major suburban intersections, and the connections from housing to the retail areas are not efficient or designed to be walked to, making these moot comparisons to urban locations. and people do not enjoy walking amongst open, traffic dominated grassy areas. this seems to be one of the influences on the environment planners and architects didn't take into consideration when thinking. "bucolic." but still. however, these scores also show how flawed this "walkability calculator" is.

[KCMax]

Washington most walkable metro area

Leinberger counted only places where significant subsidies are no longer required to spur development. He predicted that many more — such as downtown Detroit and Crossroads in Kansas City, Mo. — would reach that point within the next decade.

Kansas City is 23rd

Brookings Institute: A Field Survey of Walkable Urban Places in the Top 30 U.S. Metropolitan Areas

[FangKC]

10th and Broadway - 74. WTF?

[ignatius]

Washington most walkable metro area

Leinberger counted only places where significant subsidies are no longer required to spur development. He predicted that many more — such as downtown Detroit and Crossroads in Kansas City, Mo. — would reach that point within the next decade.

Kansas City is 23rd

Brookings Institute: A Field Survey of Walkable Urban Places in the Top 30 U.S. Metropolitan Areas

Surprising to see KC ranked that high as a metro as they heavily weigh rail transit. 

[homewardbound]

The score should really consider the speed limit on streets that you must travel to reach all these destinations.  Walking 0.5 miles down a 45mph street is not very pedestrian-friendly.

[warwickland]

Surprising to see KC ranked that high as a metro as they heavily weigh rail transit. 

The Plaza always seems to weigh very heavily in consideration of these walkability rankings.