Perfect 100
We’ve noticed lots of people comparing their Walk Scores. One great thing about living in a condo (besides feeling good about your smaller environmental footprint) is that you and everyone else in the building can collectively brag about your Walk Score.
Seattle’s Trace Lofts just hung up a big Walk Score banner to advertise their perfect Walk Score of 100. Kudos to Trace Lofts for recognizing that a high Walk Score equals good living!
I also like how the designers of the banner couldn’t get a high-res image of Google Maps, so they pasted a Walk Score screenshot onto a cell phone. We’ve always wanted a mobile version of Walk Score—but why didn’t they use an iPhone?!
October 24th, 2007 at 10:38 pm
I would like more factoring in of public transit and bike routes which are not exactly walking activities but combined with walkability make a neighborhood walkable (vs. needing a car) in colder weather. Also, Google maps has an option to click take public transit after mapping out a driving route which should help with factoring in bus and light rail, etc.
October 25th, 2007 at 7:27 pm
We have now become obsessed with walkscore. We’re looking for a house in West Seattle and we just found the perfect one…except it’s 1.9 miles from Alaska Junction. And about nowhere near anything else worth walking to. So I either need to greatly brush up on my biking skills…or find another house.
Off to cry now.