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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]To be extremely walkable a place needs more than a string of retail heavily concentrated along one strip.  Vienna fails that test, even with a few things on Church or Park.  Old Town passes.  Clarendon is somewhere in the middle because it has retail concentrated along several streets (Wilson, Clarendon).  [/quote]
It’s true that Vienna does not make the grade for extremely walkable. But Clarendon DOES make the grade for extremely expensive. Vienna has walkable areas, great schools, metro, green space, friendly people lots of families. But DC is pretty far away. There is so much to do with families that hiking off to DC seems less important. 
Alexandria seems to have a lot of problems however much people love it. 
Trade offs. [/quote]

Vienna is three zip codes:  22180 (28K pop), 22182 (15K pop), 22182 (29K).  That's about 72,000 people in total.  Those who actually walk to things in Vienna consist of a few thousand people in 22180 who live close to the main drag, Maple Avenue, which is the name for busy Route 123 in Vienna (it's Ox Road in Fairfax, Chain Bridge Road in Fairfax, and Dolley Madison Blvd in McLean).  These people are over-represented on DCUM; they exaggerate how much they walk to feel better about living 20 miles from DC; and their experiences are in no way representative of most Vienna residents.  And even then they are mostly walking to stores in strip malls that have cars pulling in and out of Maple to park.

Clarendon has something closer to an urban grid, and Old Town Alexandria absolutely has an urban grid.  Del Ray also is more walkable because Mt. Vernon Avenue doesn't have anywhere near the same volume of cars as Route 123.  [/quote]

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