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Originally Posted by Kashka
But...the city limits of Philadelphia as I understand it is still pretty wide spread. Chestnut Hill is considered part of Philadelphia...and I for sure cannot walk from Center City to Chestnut Hill.
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But it would be possible, given the time, the energy and some type of incentive. That's what walkability is all about. I once walked from the Boston Market on Snyder to BSL Race-Vine, just for the heck of it and only took the subway from there because things get kind of boring on Broad north of Vine.
The STPP did a study in 2002 that gave the Philadelphia metro pretty high marks (yes, that's kind of sad, given the sprawl areas in places like Montco and Bucks). IIRC, the Pittsburgh and Boston areas were the top two, followed by brooke's hometown.
http://transact.org/report.asp?id=202
Edit: just took the time to actually look at the report and the top 3 are Cinci, Boston and NYC, in that order. The ones I mentioned before are from the previous report (1999?). Both Philly and Pitt lost ground between '99 and '02.