What's your neighborhood's mass transit score?

[marmar]

Check it out here:

http://www.walkscore.com/transit-score.php


(note: data is available for about 100 transit agencies)

[snooper2]

1. 54

50–69 Good Transit — Many nearby public transportation options

[sinkingfeeling]

2. 78... not too bad, because all we have is walking. We're getting 2 pedal taxi companies in the next

couple of weeks.

[MadHound]

3. I live out in the country, what mass transit?

I rely on my little scooter, 60 mph, 100 mpg.

[lukasahero]

16. In my case, it's called "feet"

We have no mass transit here but my neighborhood got a score of 88 - because it's walkable to many "necessities". (There's a plaza about 2 miles down the road from me that has a grocery store, bank, etc...)

[MadHound]

21. That's nice, but the nearest "plaza" is twenty miles away.

The only food store around here is an expanded convenience store that overcharges for basic stuff like milk, bread, etc.

Feet doesn't do you much good as transit out in the boonies.

[lukasahero]

24. Then you'd probably have a low score

Jeez, I was just making conversation.

[MadHound]

40. Sorry,

Didn't mean for my tone to offend, I was just making conversation as well. It is sometimes hard to read the tone of a person's post.

[marmar]

22. Was that the walkability score or the transit score?

Two scores should pop up, unless your community is one that the calculator doesn't have transit data for as of yet.

[lukasahero]

27. I only got a walk score

"8 of 9 transit agencies near ... provide open data:" but I still didn't get a transit score...

[itsrobert]

4. 35 out of 100

However, they calculated a restaurant across the Freeway as the closest to me. However, I would have to walk up a hill and then down a hill, over the overpass of the freeway and back down again. It's probably a 30-40 minute walk for me. (And I'm fit)

[spinbaby]

5. Our is definitely a big fat zero

If you wish to walk four miles through ditches, you can catch a bus.

[leftynyc]

6. 100 - Manhattan where I work

62 where I live in Westchester county.

[marmar]

7. I used to live in Westchester......

Public transportation was quite the joke.....except for Metro-North into the city.

[leftynyc]

49. The Beeline buses are actually quite good

if you need to get to White Plains or somewhere on Central Avenue. You can pick them up at any train station. Not like the subway at all but between that and Metro North, I haven't had the need for a car in almost 10 years.

[ThomWV]

8. There is no public transport here, in fact you couldn't even get a cab to come out here

[Fuzz]

9. 35

[ipaint]

10. 86 - and we are getting a new grocery store 3 blocks from where I live.

One of the by products of the housing collapse is it stopped the yuppification of my older working class neighborhood. I can afford to rent a small apt. here, in fact rental costs are decreasing.

[hobbit709]

11. Says 58 in my neighboorhood, but I'd say more like about 45.

It gives straight line distances to some places near me that you can't get there in a straight line. Says my nearest grocery is 0.53 mi. By street it is a hair over 0.7mi.

[pipi_k]

12. Hah. Never mind mass transit where I live...

Unless you want to pack 25 people into the bed of a pickup truck

[Soylent Brice]

13. 85

not bad.

[revolution breeze]

14. 46

Absolutely no mass transit!

[ProgressiveProfessor]

15. Zero, but I live out in the twigs (past the sticks)

[surrealAmerican]

17. 80.

... and I do walk just about everywhere I go.

[mod mom]

18. 48.

[slackmaster]

19. 42, and the generated map has some hilarious errors (or possibly anti-piracy watermarks)

A Mexican restaurant right in the middle of a purely residential neighborhood, right about where Thomas Brothers has a museum that does not exist.

[keith the dem]

20. YIPEE! 94 for me, I live in paradise.

This was a major consideration for my move here years ago.

[Skidmore]

23. Ours is a zero.

We live in a village of less than 200 souls in the middle of the prairie. We do not have a full grocery store, just a little shop that is okay for emergency purchases of basics. No fresh produce. The nearest school is 3 miles over, but is only the elementary school and the middle and high schools are 13 miles away. Library???? It's in the school. Theater? Only open part of the year. No mass transit of any kind, although we do have freight trains which roll by hauling ADM tankers several times a day. I suppose we could hop the train and ride the rails hobo-style into the nearest town which is about 20 miles away.

[pipi_k]

32. You're big city compared to me..

we don't even have a theater.

Well, not a movie theater, anyway. We do have a miniature "stage" theater though. Inside the same building that houses the town hall and police station.

Oh, and our library...half of it is library, the other half is rental apartments.

One of the banquet locations is actually an old railroad caboose next to an even older train station...


Just gotta love these small towns, though...

:7

[name not needed]

25. 86

[kestrel91316]

26. 69 - I have to walk 10 minutes+ to get to almost anything, but then

the possibilities are pretty much endless with 3 major bus routes.

[LWolf]

28. Zero.

But I knew that. I live rurally.

So I entered in the address for the last time I lived in a town. It was 20.

[JHB]

29. 94

Haven't owned a car in over 15 years.

[Bill McBlueState]

30. no mass transit data here

It exists in Toledo, but it's not very helpful.

My walk score is 65, fairly high because there are a number of businesses within half a mile. But they don't consider that the sidewalks and crosswalks are incomplete at best.

[marmar]

33. Yep. One of the problems with these scores and suburbia.....

I live close to a number of places to eat and shop, but you'd be risking life and limb crossing these ridiculously high-traffic suburban thoroughfares to walk to them.

[femmocrat]

31. Zero.

We do have school buses, if that counts.

[Matariki]

34. Hey that's a nice site

links to bike route maps.

[cliffordu]

35. 94.

Man I loves me some PDX

[Brickbat]

36. Zero. I live in the woods.

[Coyote_Bandit]

37. Six

I presume the score is six instead of zero because there is one resturant - more of a bar really - that is less than a mile away.

Of course, I also noted that the nearest source of groceries is a fucking Wal-Mart distribution center. Yeah, right. Whatever. It's not like anyone can actually fucking buy something there. Even if they wanted to.

The only shopping listed are specialty stores. Stanley Tools. T-Fal. A pharmacy. Little Britches. No department or discount stores.

Parks? Schools? Banks? Entertainment? All several miles away.

Definitely car dependent. But I already knew that.

[jmm]

38. 97

And people wonder why I don't have a car :shrug:?

[EFerrari]

39. It would have to be zero because I'd need to walk nearly a mile

to get to a paved road or a bike path. :)

[NorthCarolina]

41. 57 for Walk Score, Zero for Transit Score. eom

[madmom]

42. mass transit?...what is that?

[XemaSab]

43. 27

Which sounds about right.

The walkability score is WAY off... It says that I live in an 82% walkable neighborhood, but their definition of what constitutes a store is a little loose.

In real life, the Safeway is .83 miles, the movie theater is 1.35 miles, and the library is 1.17 miles. One way. And it's been in the hundreds all week. :P

There are a few restaurants close enough to walk to, and the bank is pretty close. Besides that, you really need a car or bike to live here. :shrug:

[frylock]

44. 24..

mass transit in san diego is abysmal.

[Fla_Democrat]

45. Zero

Compare Your Walk Score
Top 10% of scores: 92

Your score: 0

Average score:49


96% of Walk Score users have a higher score.

Ok, who's the other 4% that live in the sticks? :evilgrin:

[Contrary1]

46. 23...and it's not accurate.

The closest grocery (1.77 miles) closed years ago. And it was closer to 3 miles away. The closest "shopping" is a feed and seed store (1.72 miles), and closer to 3 miles also.

It is right about one thing. Where we live, we are car dependent.

[Silver Swan]

47. It says I am car-dependent

But if I am willing to trespass about 75 feet, I have most necessities within one mile, including a commuter train station.

[alfredo]

48. I'd have to walk two and a half miles to get a bus.

[one_voice]

50. *sigh* 28 n/t

[NYC Liberal]

51. 100 - Rider's Paradise

25 nearby routes: 17 bus, 8 rail, 0 other

[Jankyn]

52. Some problems with this, though...

It listed restaurants that no longer exist; included a convenience store (beer, chips, pop and ice cream, ya know?), which is great for picking up milk and bread but not much else, as a grocery store; counted an office for a banking company as a bank; counted a lobbying firm as a bookstore.

Yeah, my neighborhood really is a walker's paradise, but not quite the way they have it! My wife and i have had one car with no problems for the last three years. We also went without a car for a full year in order to pay off debt.