Housing + Transportation Affordability Index
Recently the Seattle Times had a syndicated article on, Check out commute before you buy.
When you’re stuck in traffic burning $3+-a-gallon gasoline to creep along at walking speed, it offers time to think. Would it be easier if I left home earlier? Would I be better off riding a train? How bad will my commute be in five years? Would life be easier and cheaper if I found a job some place where the roads aren’t as crowded and the homes aren’t so expensive?
A new Web-based tool developed by the Center for Neighborhood Technology (CNT), a Chicago-based urban-development think tank, can help put facts behind those daydreams.
I checked out the tool expecting it to give me some sort of Walkscore like experience but for commuting but the site helps me answer none of those questions. I think I need a major in stats or something to answer those questions using that website.
The Center for Neighborhood Technology would be well served to hire a user experience designer or program manager to represent the average customer in their design meetings so that they produce something usable.