Posts tagged Walk Score
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How did your Walk Score change over your life?
Last week, I asked how the Walk Score of the place you grew up compares to where you live now. Dan Reed came up with a great extension of the game: Graph the Walk Scores for everywhere you've lived over time. Mine is above. Keep reading…
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How different is the Walk Score where you grew up, from where you live now?
During a recent lunch discussion, I and a few folks were talking about our Walk Scores. We came up with the idea of comparing our Walk Score now to the one where we grew up. I might be hard to beat: My Walk Score growing up was a 2. Now, it's a 97. Keep reading…
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In San Diego, an example of how “within walking distance” does not always mean “walkable”
I like to ride the San Diego Trolley when I visit family there, but the mile walk from the station to their house is so, so awful that it always makes me think twice about riding the train. Here at home, my walk to the Metro is the same distance, and I do it happily all the time. Keep reading…
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Breakfast links: Walkability close to work is worth a lot
Walk Score is money; What a shorter commute is worth; More suburban poverty; No Metro for marathon or Bruce; Test scores up, but still low; Will this road be safer?; More cyclists die nationally; Manassas trailer park evicted; Way more ride hailing; And…. Keep reading…
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Breakfast links: Whose plan is it anyway?
Keep ‘em coming; Shifting lanes; Playground politics; Retro refit; Fit or fiction; Dipping a toe in the water; Not so fast; And…. Keep reading…
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Breakfast links: Keep rollin’
Happy BTWD!; AAA helping hand; By the numbers; Metro’s new solution; A sudden acceleration; Failure to load; The final countdown; Good business; And…. Keep reading…
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Breakfast links: Riding and Walking
Fewer trains; Because they’re happy; Get around; Walk this way; Wider walkways; Rising rates; Waiting game; You’re the best; Historic NIMBY; Seek and you shall find. Keep reading…
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Think you know Metro’s neighborhoods? This quiz might surprise you
Yesterday, PlanItMetro posted maps showing what’s within walking distance of each Metro station. Check them out (and maybe read up on what walk sheds are and how they differ across the region), then take our quiz to test what you know. Keep reading…
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Breakfast links: Triggers
Maybe no tax cuts?; Eventual traffic calming; No streetcar referendum; Alexandria stems flooding; Chickenshare; #1 for walking; Women attacked on Met Branch; See the Blue Line; Florence and the interchange; And…. Keep reading…
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Breakfast links: Bowser, Nadeau beat incumbents
Bowser is the nominee; Nadeau beats Graham; What took so long?; Transit center in 2014?; Circulator extends hours; Transit partnership will save money; Congress discussing transit benefit again; Too many tickets amid blossoms?; DC region is a flop for investors; No snow day exception; And…. Keep reading…