How walkable is your neighborhood?

Well, I came across this link in one of the blogs I read regularly (Buschick in the Seattle P-I site). It is a pretty cool site that calculates the walkability of your neighborhood: Walkscore.com

Our urban neighborhood here in Rosedale Park, Detroit, gets a 54 out of 100, which I guess means it is decently walkable. It uses Google to garner info on how far it is from your address to different types of locations, such as grocery stores, restaurants, bars, and so on. A list for each category pops up showing distances. That can cause a problem with your score if, for instance, a close location is missing. In our case, the closest coffee shop is listed as a mile and a half away-- a Dunkin' Donuts-- but there is a donut shop only five blocks from our house, easily walkable in just a few minutes. But, the site is still fun, and gives a sense of how walkable your community really is.