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Walkscore.com


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Dusk on Sepulveda., originally uploaded by Here in Van Nuys.

A friend sent me a link to site called “Walkscore.com“. You enter an address and the computer determines how “walkable” the neighborhood is. How close your home is to essential services that you might get to on foot, rather than by auto, this is the point.

Well my little pocket near Sepulveda and Victory scored 77 out of 100 because I am so close to so much that I want to walk to. (Ha!) It’s true in some cases: I am within walking distance to a video store, two banks, Jiffy Lube, a car wash, Dunn-Edwards and Arco, McDonalds, and about four Mexican restaurants and bakeries.

Then why is it that I never have the desire to stroll around Sepulveda and Victory at night, the way I might if I lived in Old Pasadena or Hancock Park?

And what other kind of people are in my neighborhood who do all their business on their platform heeled feet?

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5 responses to “Walkscore.com”

  1. Dasha Avatar
    Dasha

    I believe that walk score is cool, but nowadays more and more people prefer to drive cars. Homes are often located in an area where some establishments are easier to get to by car than on foot. I’ve recently found a type of service on drivescore which is called Drive Score. It shows a map of what establishments are in your neighborhood and calculates a Drive Score based on the number of places within a convenient driving distance. It doesn’t mean that drive score is better than walk score – they are equal and both necessary in the modern world!

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  2. Vicki Davidson Avatar
    Vicki Davidson

    Having grown up at Sepulveda & Victory and now with my sons visiting “grandma” there… I am very glad to see the INCREDIBLE improvement over the last 33 years. At 15 years only (1986), I walked in the evenings to the newly built strip mall (under the demolition of DuPars) to my first job at Who’s the Boss Yogurt. It is a GREAT neighborhood to walk in… It’s not a great place to hang-out on the street corner loitering (and I certainly don’t complain about that). I am glad to have been an active member of this community and that neighborhood (from the east side of Sepulveda) for my whole life… I wish my work was closer so that I could justify living there even now…

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  3. Anonymous Avatar
    Anonymous

    or a Jiffy Lube?

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  4. Alain M Avatar
    Alain M

    What’s the use of being within walking distance of a car wash ?

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  5. Anonymous Avatar
    Anonymous

    Then why is it that I never have the desire to stroll around Sepulveda and Victory at night

    Partly because the street desperately needs some of what this LACPD study, previously listed on your comment board, recommends:

    http://planning.lacity.org/Code_Studies/Other/LincolnCDOSlideshowwebformat.pdf

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