A video posted to YouTube this month about Fayetteville being the least walkable city in the U.S. had gained more than 125,000 views as of Tuesday.
The video, titled “I Walked Across America’s Least Walkable City,” posted by YouTuber Sam Reid, shows Reid and Fayetteville resident Preston Griffin walking more than 13 miles from the south side of Fayetteville, starting near the Crown Complex near Owen Drive and ending on the north side of the city, past Ramsey Street.
“The goal is to see one: how long it’ll take us, and two: how difficult it is to do day-to-day tasks on foot in one of the most car-dependent cities in America,” Reid said in the video.
How Fayetteville got its low ranking
In the introduction of the video, Reid said every city in the U.S. has a walk score on a scale from zero to 100 to determine how easy it is to get around on foot…