Worldchanging: Bright Green: Walk Score Adds Transit

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Walk Score Adds Transit

Popular walkability ranking now includes bus stops and rail stations.

Walk Score , which has become the most widely-used measure of pedestrian friendly neighborhoods in North America, has added a new trick: they're now incorporating transit data into their walkability ratings. So in addition to stores, restaurants, parks, and the like, Walk Score now treats nearby bus stops and rail stations as key ingredients of a walkable neighborhood.

What makes this extra nifty is that Walk Score has already partnered with a bunch of national real estate websites to incorporate walkability rankings into real estate listings. So now, all those real estate sites will have data on transit access, too.

Sadly, Walk Score's new transit ranking only works in places where transit agencies have made their " transit feeds " -- the data on transit locations and schedules -- freely available to the public. So ...

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