Comments for Walk Score Blog

Comment on Bike Score is here! by Josh Herst

Josh Herst — Wed, 16 May 2012 03:38:50 +0000

Weather affects biking less than you may think: bit.ly/Jlw7mK

Comment on Bike Score is here! by Sally

Sally — Tue, 15 May 2012 23:10:42 +0000

Bike score needs to consider annual weather conditions. I’d rather bike in a hilly city than a city with frequent rain or regular snow or extreme heat.

Comment on Bike Score is here! by Payton

Payton — Tue, 15 May 2012 17:48:14 +0000

The findings generally jibe with what I’ve observed on the ground in numerous cities, although the methodology does tend to mark parks (particularly hilly ones!) and CBDs as unnecessarily bike-unfriendly.

On another note, may I ask that your future maps not use red and green as opposing colors? Those are particularly difficult hues for us colorblind people (~4% of the population) to discern. You can find colorblind-friendly map palettes at the ColorBrewer website.

Comment on Bike Score is here! by Josh Herst

Josh Herst — Mon, 14 May 2012 15:47:34 +0000

It’s on the roadmap!

Comment on Bike Score is here! by Michael, Portland Afoot

Michael, Portland Afoot — Mon, 14 May 2012 15:44:41 +0000

You’ve got the maps – is the Street Smart calculation too intensive to permit address-level searches? Yet another city ranking is fine, but to me the magic of Walk Score is the location data. Is this on the way?

Comment on Bike Score is here! by Cliff

Cliff — Mon, 14 May 2012 14:37:46 +0000

Nice job! Awesome new tool.

Comment on New Ranking of Transit Systems by Josh Herst

Josh Herst — Mon, 30 Apr 2012 22:58:46 +0000

Thanks for your feedback. In the future we hope to do a metropolitan area (v. city) ranking.

Comment on New Ranking of Transit Systems by Erica

Erica — Mon, 30 Apr 2012 15:22:04 +0000

I’m curious whether population density and the era in which a city grew significantly (before or after the wide use of automobiles) have strong correlation with the transit scores. Does anyone have ready access to that data?

Comment on New Ranking of Transit Systems by Nathanael

Nathanael — Mon, 30 Apr 2012 08:41:42 +0000

Is is possible to redo these using metropolitan areas? The municipal borders suffer from arbitrariness.

Comment on New Ranking of Transit Systems by Hunter

Hunter — Sun, 29 Apr 2012 16:28:54 +0000

Walkscore and Transitscore is heavily oriented towards finding housing. Have you considered making a different option oriented towards tourists? I often would like to travel to a city or even small town for a day or two by just hopping on Amtrak and then walking around when I get there. To a tourist, the availability of grocery stores is not all that important, but museums, parks, and hotels in walkable or transit-accessible areas is more important. (I don’t know if there is an easy way of doing it, but the quality of the tourists attractions could be weighted too).

I wonder how Richmond, Virginia would do or New Haven, Conn.