Surprise! Atlanta not such a walkable city
BY Jeanne Bonner • July 12, 2009
Los Angeles is more walkable than Atlanta! So is Las Vegas!
The Atlanta Business Chronicle reports that Walkscore.com has ranked Atlanta No. 22 among the top 40 cities in the U.S. in terms of walkability.
I’m actually surprised it scored that high. The Web site ranked Five Points as the city’s most walkable neighborhood. Click on the link to see how 32 neighborhoods around Atlanta rank.
Five Points beat out Midtown, which came in at No. 4 (more on that after the jump).
According to Walk Score, “The top 2 neighborhoods in Atlanta are Walkers’ Paradises. 27% of Atlanta residents have a Walk Score of 70 or above. 49% have a Walk Score of at least 50—and 51% live in Car-Dependent neighborhoods.”
By comparison, only 19% of Denver’s residents live in Car-Dependent neighborhoods.
See the rest of this story at Atlanta Unsheltered.
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As a dyed in the wool new yorker now transplanted to LA, this does not come as a surprise to me. LA is full of great walkable neighborhoods, and in many of them people actually do walk. the problem is getting from one neighborhood to another… btw, fix your date format — it’s currently set European style, showing the day then the month. this is america, dammit, and we put the month first: 7/12/09
Thanks, Ezra. It’s interesting what you say about the lack of connection between neighborhoods in LA. (I always wonder how similar LA and Atlanta are.)
You could say the same for Atlanta. Downtown, Midtown, Virginia-Highlands, Grant Park, etc are all eminently walkable but when you need to go to a different neighborhood, you may not be able to do so on public transportation and so you’re stuck with your car.