2) Individual Street Segment Walk Score and Design Score Comparison
Street Segment 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 13 14 15
Walk Design Score Score 50 4 45 31 69 42 59 27 57 51 46 41 46 19 69 50 59 32 63 28 60 34 48 34 50 48 66 12 53 33 Average Difference
Difference 46 14 27 32 6 5 27 19 27 35 26 14 2 54 20 24
Table 4. Difference between Design Scores and Walk Scores for each street segment in Downtown San Francisco.
Comparing each street segment’s Design Score to its Walk Score reveals that the average difference is 24 points between the two tools. The highest difference was 54 points for Segment 14. Segment 14 was nondescript containing the presence of two buildings, one notably a church, but little else. However, the segment scores relatively high on Walk Score due to its proximity to a large shopping centre a few blocks north. This highlights the inadequacy of Walk Score’s methodology.
Figure 13. Observed street segments in LaSalle Gardens, Detroit (black lines).
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