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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]So what I'm hearing here is that walkability for what people want to do is important. One doesn't need a "walk score" to understand that, and the walk score itself is misleading because people value the different types of walkability differently (schools, [b]work,[/b] shopping, restaurants.)[/quote]

[b]Well, it obviously can't factor in your commute, can it?[/b]

Walk score is important for people who like to walk, don't mind living in more dense urban areas, and who embrace that type of lifestyle.  If you are used to driving everywhere, and like it, and prefer to have a lot of greenery around you, walkscore is completely irrelevant.

Min is 89, BTW, and I'm a little surprised that it's not higher.  I live in the heart of Columbia Heights, and I'm hard pressed to think of anywhere more walkable in DC.  PP with a score of 99, where to you live?  [/quote]

That is likely one of the reasons why your walkscore is not higher.  Many of us do walk to work, and I believe that it takes into account the number of jobs within a walkable distance.  Here are the list of neighborhoods with walkscores higher than yours.  Notice that they are all closer to job centers.

1 Dupont Circle 98 14,443 
2 West End 97 3,204 
3 Downtown 96 4,181 
4 Penn Quarter 96 1,561 
5 Logan Circle 96 16,545 
6 Chinatown 95 1,032 
7 Foggy Bottom 94 13,153 
8 Mount Vernon Square 94 6,164 
9 Judiciary Square 94 1,985 
10 U Street Corridor 94 3,796 
11 Swampoodle 92 783 
12 Shaw 91 9,925 
13 Columbia Heights 91 30,718

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