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  Hope there's more to come...

  What a wonderful idea! I love it, and it needs to continue.

  I'm concerned, however, that without some further considerations in their algorithms that the ratings are quite a bit too optimistic and actually unrealistic.  I just put in my address, and it said that it was "very walkable".  Many of the stores that were listed, however, are unreachable or nearly unreachable on foot.  For one of them, I'd have to cross an interstate with large sections of the path having no sidewalk and parts with no space to walk at all (forget about a sidewalk!).  I'd literally be walking in the street with the cars.  To top it off, the streets are busy with motorists that in my neck of the woods try to hit pedestrians and bicyclists.  When I have tried to walk, I've vowed to next time wear hiking boots or just take the bus.

  Maybe there should be a "potential walkability" rating along with a "current walkability rating".  It is true that many places of business are geographically close to my addres.  With major pedestrian infastructure improvements, it could become walkable, but I would rate it as "hardly walkable" currently.On Major U.S. cities ranked by relative walkability posted 1 year, 3 months ago 3 Responses