If you want to walk to schools, parks and shopping in west suburban Naperville, it’s best to live downtown or near the Ogden Avenue, 75th Street and Route 59 corridors, a preliminary study shows.
A chart developed by from Reed Perkins, professor of environmental studies at North Central College, shows how various Naperville neighborhoods rate for walkability to locations like public transit stops, retail centers, grocery stores, parks and schools.
Perkins, who worked with North Central students Lauren Casper and George Queisser, used the city’s Geographic Information System maps and data to create potential routes to such locations as public transit stops, parks, schools, retail centers and grocery stores.Neighborhoods were awarded one point for every destination category that was a 15-minute walk or less, Perkins said. Up to seven points could be accumulated.
Reed Perkins, professor of environmental studies at North Central College in Naperville, provides the city’s Transportation Advisory Board with initial findings on a walkability study he, his students and the Naperville Environment and Sustainability Task Force are undertaking. Grocery stores, Perkins said, are not equally distributed across the municipality and tend to be clustered. There are several along Ogden Avenue, for example.Some neighborhoods in southeastern Naperville have no grocery stores within walking distance, he said.
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