25 best transit systems in big U.S. cities according to Walk Score (largest, places)

[kcmo]

Places with scores of 70 or higher are considered to have excellent transit, places with scores between 50 and 69 have good transit, and places with scores below 50 offer some or minimal transit:

1. New York, 81
2. San Francisco, 80
3. Boston, 74,
4. Washington, D.C., 69
5. Philadelphia, 68
6. Chicago, 65
7. Seattle, 59
8. Miami, 57
9. Baltimore, 57
10. Portland, Ore. 50
11. Los Angeles, 49
12. Milwaukee, 49
13. Denver, 47
14. Cleveland, 45
15. San Jose, 40
16. Dallas, 39
17. Houston, 36
18. San Diego, 36
19. San Antonio, 35
20. Kansas City, Mo. 34
21. Austin, 33
22. Sacramento, 32
23. Las Vegas, 32
24. Columbus, 29
25. Raleigh, 23

What do you think?

Link:

http://www.walkscore.com/transit

[munchitup]

I believe it is really just the largest 25 cities ranked from 1-25.

[kcmo]

^ There are a lot of top 25 cities missing on that list.

[Cliff Clavin]

I'm not sure how SF ranked so high.

[kcmo]

Top 25 cities not on the list:

Atlanta, Detroit, Phoenix, Minneapolis, St Louis, Tampa, Pittsburgh,

All of those cities "should" be on the list except Tampa and Detroit.

[MB8abovetherim]

Yeah, San Francisco is high but SF's city proper is only about 7 miles by 7 miles large. So, the already excellent transit in place there coupled with it's small area make things very convenient. I'm sure if you took SF's transit to Los Angeles or Houston or Atlanta where things are more spread out the system would be far less adequate.

[BLAXTOR]

No mention of Atlanta...

[313Weather]

Originally Posted by munchitup

I believe it is really just the largest 25 cities ranked from 1-25.

Detroit?

[Darbro]

Texarkana beats all those cities. Our express line is top notch. Consists of a really fast jittery horse hitched to an apple cart.

[qc dreamin]

Originally Posted by kcmo

Places with scores of 70 or higher are considered to have excellent transit, places with scores between 50 and 69 have good transit, and places with scores below 50 offer some or minimal transit:

1. New York, 81
2. San Francisco, 80
3. Boston, 74,
4. Washington, D.C., 69
5. Philadelphia, 68
6. Chicago, 65
7. Seattle, 59
8. Miami, 57
9. Baltimore, 57
10. Portland, Ore. 50
11. Los Angeles, 49
12. Milwaukee, 49
13. Denver, 47
14. Cleveland, 45
15. San Jose, 40
16. Dallas, 39
17. Houston, 36
18. San Diego, 36
19. San Antonio, 35
20. Kansas City, Mo. 34
21. Austin, 33
22. Sacramento, 32
23. Las Vegas, 32
24. Columbus, 29
25. Raleigh, 23

What do you think?

Link:

Public Transit System Rankings from Walk Score

Raleigh, las vegas, kansas city, Milwaukee,San Antonio, Austin, Columbus, Sacramentu but no Charlotte?? Ok