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Not that you needed another, but here’s further evidence that you ought to live inside the city. Forbes.com, the e-soapbox of financial shaman and meta-politician Steve Forbes, just released its 2008 list of the top twenty most congested cities in America, and guess who ranked, again?
In 2007, the City of Imperative Conviction ranked #19 on the list, which was great, considering that we were on it at all. Nineteen means that you’re doing better than most but also that you’re not the first name to come up when some website dramatically does the roll call from back to front. (Sorry, Riverside, CA.) But in 2008, we got bumped up to #17 on the list which means basically that we’re two notches worse than we were previously. Granted, our congestion decreased over the course of the year by 30%, but hey, this is a competition, not a trust fall.
Well, what now? Take note: we’re one of those cockeyed cities whose heaviest rush hour is actually Thursday, not Friday, at 5:00 p.m. So I guess drive less then, because it’s not like you’re going to get where you’re going anyway. But otherwise, try not having to drive forty-five minutes to work. Try hanging around downtown for a drink or a game of pool after work because, shucks y’all, it’s only a tipsy fifteen-minute bike ride home to your beautiful row house because said row house is in the for-real city. Try dusk. Yeah, it’s a time of day, and it happens when you’re sitting in your motionless car on 83, cursing God. Stop doing that.
And while you’re at it, stop rubbernecking. Trust me–the dude’s just changing his tire. Welcome to Baltimore. You live here.
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