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I personally think it's a bit jacked. I live in College Park, MD (two blocks from the metro) and it gave me a walk score of only 57 (somewhat walkable). Mean while if I put in an address three blocks over from my house (four blocks from the metro, the score jumps to 89 (very walkable) hugh.....??
Additionally when I asked it to calculate my commute to Crystal City, it advised that I get on the Marc (which also stops at College Park metro) take the Marc to Union Station, then get off and take a Loudon County Dulles commuter bus to Crystal City. This would take me 1 hour and twenty minutes versus the 40 mins a direct metro ride would take. They have supposedly added a mass transit algorithm to the calculation however I don’t think they even know metro exists within my neighborhood. 57 is way too low for my hood, especially when the number jumps to 89 a few blocks over. I give it a rotten!
Moderator cut: I removed the link from the thread title - it's already there, no need to post it for the 2nd time. Yac.
Well WMATA hasn't opened up their transit info to services like Google Maps, which I'm guessing is what WalkScore uses. What can you expect though, WMATA is boneheaded and anti-progress which is why they don't do things like maintenance until things start breaking down or people start dying.
Anyway I think it's pretty accurate. It gave my mom's house, which is in Bethesda (not near downtown Bethesda) a score of 38 which is "car dependent" which is spot-on. My dad's house, in Adams Morgan, has a score of 97 "walker's paradise" which also sounds right.
Well WMATA hasn't opened up their transit info to services like Google Maps, which I'm guessing is what WalkScore uses. What can you expect though, WMATA is boneheaded and anti-progress which is why they don't do things like maintenance until things start breaking down or people start dying.
Anyway I think it's pretty accurate. It gave my mom's house, which is in Bethesda (not near downtown Bethesda) a score of 38 which is "car dependent" which is spot-on. My dad's house, in Adams Morgan, has a score of 97 "walker's paradise" which also sounds right.
I agree, however without WMATA's data certain areas are a bit skewed.
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