One of the latest missions of the New York Times seems to be keeping readers - well, why not say the entire US population? - healthy by whatever means. To that end, it sponsors a web site called Walkscore.com listing 'most walkable' US cities as well as those to avoid if you are intent on footing it.
No surprise that New York City leads. Then San Francisco and Boston but fourth is - unusually tagged this way in my mind - Miami. Surely not the entire urban area of that spread out city?
Washington DC comes in at number 7, just ahead of Seattle.
The criteria hangs on how easily a person can accomplish basic errands without access to wheels and a motor - bikes presumably are ok to use - in American cities with a population of more than 300,000.
Too bad for Fort Worth, Raleigh, Nashville and Charlotte (which is at the bottom of the list), among others dismissed as 'least walkable' and 'in need of a car.'
No surprise that New York City leads. Then San Francisco and Boston but fourth is - unusually tagged this way in my mind - Miami. Surely not the entire urban area of that spread out city?
Washington DC comes in at number 7, just ahead of Seattle.
The criteria hangs on how easily a person can accomplish basic errands without access to wheels and a motor - bikes presumably are ok to use - in American cities with a population of more than 300,000.
Too bad for Fort Worth, Raleigh, Nashville and Charlotte (which is at the bottom of the list), among others dismissed as 'least walkable' and 'in need of a car.'
Miami is not walkable--no where to walk for basic errands. Now, Miami Beach and Key Biscayne are, but they're not Miami. Walkscore is wrong.
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