And the results are fantastic . The data is a hair out-dated, but you can still get a very good feel for the walkability of a location. A sincere thank you to Zillow for making their neighborhood boundaries open source , and to Walk Score for their site … might “Bike Score” be in the works?
Posts tagged Transportation
Transportation Town Hall on Monday
If you would like more bike lanes or rail service or other transportation concerncs, take the time to tell some of the people whose voices matter (not that ours don’t – they just have bigger and better targeted microphones). Town meeting on transportation with Delegate David Toscano and Senator Creigh Deeds Monday, June 16 at 7 PM Albemarle County Office Building – Room A.
Government’s not going to do it – so why not Google?
What if Google, in addition to driving times, added a “biking” or “estimated walking” time, and highlighted appropriate bike routes? … With gas prices going up faster than we can keep track , what would it take for the Charlottesville region to duplicate some of these lifestyle decisions ?
Proximity to rail equals higher property values?
Estately , one of the best real estate search sites out there puts forth this as fact – When buying a home, living near rail lines is better . … *For real estate blog geeks (like me) the first line of my post in May ’05 is intriguing to me – “Found this blog today with a very interesting story about the above subject -” ” this blog ” is the venerable Rain City Guide .
Could this be part of the future of transportation?
Just wondering if this could work in the Charlottesville/Central Virginia area. I still think that an implementation of this type of system is among the best I’ve seen .
Bike Week in Charlottesville
(gas prices are absolutely impacting ever facet of our lives – real estate, too ) “Many people did the ‘drive to qualify,’ ” looking in farther-out suburbs to find affordable homes, says Joe Cortright, an analyst at Impresa Inc., a consulting firm. … One thing I am wondering is this – where are the best places to buy recycled bikes in the Charlottesville area?
What if the Meadowcreek Parkway didn’t exist?
There have been countless (at least a few thousand ) stories written about the Meadowcreek Parkway over the years. What if the community was able to think of a brand-new transportation solution, not bound by the vestiges of 40-year-old (plus) thinking?