Only in California?

I am planning a trip to New York and part of the program involves sightseeing from Washington Square Park to the new High Line Park, about 1.5 miles away.

Google Maps gives me the routes. In fact it gives me car, transit and walking routes. So far so good.

I figure out how to do it and I want to save my walking route so I can quickly find it on my iPhone or discuss it with others or whatever: I want to save my work.

I spend probably 20 minutes trying to figure out to do a "Save my map." But lo-and-behold Google Maps will only let me save the car trip routing -- in Manhattan, New York! Only in California would a company (in this case it is Do No Evil Google) set up a fantastic system to be able to go just about anyplace in several modes and then remove the ability to save only the driving map!

It's fantastic. I can hardly believe it. But it's so. Only in California!

No it is not a plot and no doubt Google will (and already plans to) save all versions, car, walk, transit and I assume bike.. But it shows you how expectations favor, even in Manhattan, the car. How far the lack of such "Save my walking route" functionality exists — say in Paris, or San Francisco or Hong Kong — I have no idea. Maybe Manhattan is an exception and I will be happy to be proven wrong.

And indeed maybe I did it wrong — so double-check my work. Maybe there's a way to save a walking or transit route but I couldn't figure it out. Here are the three versions.I found: