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Old 02-17-15 | 12:08 AM
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Just ran across this website: https://www.walkscore.com

You plug in an address and it gives the address a score on a scale from 1 to 100 in terms of walkability. My old Shoreview neighborhood scored 17 which sounds pretty bad but the house I grew up in scored a 3.

My Minneapolis neighborhood scored 58 in terms of walkability and got a 69 for bikeability

There was also a slider that let's you pick a time interval and then select a mode of travel. It would show you the area on the map that you could travel to within that time frame. So if you pick 20 minutes, it'll show you the area that you can cover by bike from that address within 20 minutes.

The Shoreview address wasn't given a score for bikeability or transit. It also didn't have the slider feature.

I'm not sure what the scores are based on but it seems fairly accurate. We are in walking distance to a number of places but there are other Minneapolis neighborhoods that are much, much better.

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