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wealth: property values correlate positively with WalkScore. Millennials put higher value on walkability, and tend to pick a location and look for jobs in it rather than going whereever they're sent. Walking means less money spent on transportation, less car subsidies and negative externalities.
health: Walkable communities are slimmer and have lower health costs. More natural exercise, fewer deaths from crashes. Americans are 4x as likely to die in a car crash as Brits or Swedes, and people in Memphis or Orlando are 4x as likely to die by car as people in NYC or Portland.
environment: Torontans use 1/4 the gasoline of Atlantans, and 5x as much as Hong Kongers. You'd guess that walkable areas have lower emissions per capita and you would be right.
equity: 1/3 of Americans can't drive; in 2015, 103 million of us didn't have a license. Walkability gives more independence to (many) elderly and children, and helps the poor and minorities who don't drive as much. Poor and minorities are disproportionately killed in traffic despite not driving as much.
walkable schools: smaller schools do better, busing is expensive, parents driving kids to school is also expensive.
zoning madness: "You see, we’re separating all the aspects of your life by great distances to make your day more convenient."
"It is ironic that, during an era when most mothers didn’t work, most kids didn’t need them to get around."
"Even as more and more parents joined the workforce, more and more children lost independent access to parks and playgrounds."
health: Walkable communities are slimmer and have lower health costs. More natural exercise, fewer deaths from crashes. Americans are 4x as likely to die in a car crash as Brits or Swedes, and people in Memphis or Orlando are 4x as likely to die by car as people in NYC or Portland.
environment: Torontans use 1/4 the gasoline of Atlantans, and 5x as much as Hong Kongers. You'd guess that walkable areas have lower emissions per capita and you would be right.
equity: 1/3 of Americans can't drive; in 2015, 103 million of us didn't have a license. Walkability gives more independence to (many) elderly and children, and helps the poor and minorities who don't drive as much. Poor and minorities are disproportionately killed in traffic despite not driving as much.
walkable schools: smaller schools do better, busing is expensive, parents driving kids to school is also expensive.
zoning madness: "You see, we’re separating all the aspects of your life by great distances to make your day more convenient."
"It is ironic that, during an era when most mothers didn’t work, most kids didn’t need them to get around."
"Even as more and more parents joined the workforce, more and more children lost independent access to parks and playgrounds."