By Kim Lyons / Pittsburgh Post-Gazette
Suzy Waldo can never call off work with the excuse that her car won’t start. And she can’t really justify showing up late for her shifts, either.

Ms. Waldo lives five blocks from the Carnegie Library of Pittsburgh South Side where she is the branch manager, and is among the relatively small but growing number of Pittsburghers who make their daily commutes by foot.

A new Census report looking at data from the past five years ranks Pittsburgh third among large cities with commuters who walk to work.

Five years of data from the American Community Survey show 11.3 percent of Pittsburghers commute by walking — ahead of New York City’s 10.3 percent, and just behind Boston, at 15.1 percent, and Washington, D.C., at 12.1 percent.

“Especially as a public librarian, it’s great for me to be able to really know the neighborhood,” Ms. Waldo said. “There’s not really a downside. It can be a little awkward when people recognize me at the swimming pool, or ask me at the Giant Eagle whether we have a certain book.”

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