Walkscore is a website that analyses how successfully walkable your neighbourhood is. and Palmerston Blvd scores very well… 85/100, which is excellent. the algorithm isn’t perfect (it doesn’t consider public transport, street design, or crime stats) but it’s an interesting quick window on how a neighbourhood functions for pedestrians.
the website is designed for “America”, which we’ll just take to mean North America, since Toronto seems to work pretty well, as does Thunder Bay. interestingly, the system breaks down for foreign addresses (an address in Paris, France, for example, comes up as “42/100, car-dependent” because the site doesn’t seem to be able to distinguish a sense of scale very well.)
overall, a really interesting addition to the web. rate your own address, here
