We're No. 22! And 6! And 148!

Atlanta has recently been ranked as the 22nd least-walkable city out of 40 in the nation. San Francisco ranked No. 1 on the list as the nation's most walkable city, followed by New York, Boston, Chicago, and Philadelphia. The four cities ranking at the bottom were Memphis, Oklahoma City, Indianapolis, Charlotte, Nashville, and Jacksonville.

Not that driving here is any great pleasure, though. Another survey has found that drivers in metro Atlanta spent 135.3 million hours in traffic delays in 2007, the sixth-worst rate in the nation, using up 95.9 million more gallons of fuel than they would have if it were not for traffic delays. Overall, traffic congestion in metro Atlanta cost an estimated $3 billion in 2007, the fourth highest in the nation. The traffic-jam champion was Los Angeles, followed by walkable New York and Chicago.

And Atlanta placed only 148th out of 193 cities in Allstate's 2009 America’s Best Drivers Report. The report says drivers in Atlanta experience an auto collision every 7.9 years, below the national average of 10 years.