WalkScore.com wants to know: Is our neighborhood walkable?
Hey! Maybe it is!
We live in North Central Phoenix, right by the Arizona Canal. Alas, as walkable (and bike-able) as our neighborhood might be, it’s still in Phoenix.
So… Maybe not…
But the cool breezes of September are just around the corner! WalkScore.com will tell you how walkable it thinks your neighborhood is.
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A high score at WalkScore.com should be one of the criteria that developers should be required to attain before they lay down a new community. The economic developement teams at every city should score projects like Encanto Parkside http://distinctivephoenix.com/?p=38 for how it would score. Then economic development funds could be channeled according to the development’s positive impact on a community. Walkable communities pollute less, reduce sprawl and combat urban blight.
As long as politicians confiscate taxpayer assets, and spend our money, they might as well get an improved community out of the exercise. How “walkable” are the neighborhoods around those billion dollar playpens for multi-millionaires (er, sports stadiums)? Walkable communities could be incentivized for a much lower expenditure. Then there would be money left for: Toy Trains!
If there were more walkable neighborhoods, we would have a raison d’etre for the toy train boondoggles that our political class so loves. Toy trains connecting high walkscore communities. It might be a winner with homebuyers.