OK, commuting around the Tampa Bay area – one that is conspicuously, unconscionably minus mass transit – is not a drive in the park. And it’s gotten worse with increased sprawl. But dead last among 60 major metropolitan areas? That’s where Forbes.com put us – ostensibly based on travel time and delays.
Forbes even has us behind Atlanta-Sandy Springs-Marietta, Georgia! I used to live in Marietta. Once you get out of your cul-de-sac community, it’s impending gridlock. Whether you’re heading into Buckhead, commuting into downtown via the merging lanes from hell that is Interstate 75 or going to the store.
The upside, however, is that it just may help make the 1-cent, sales-tax case for the November referendum on modern transit/light rail. Maybe.