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12/23/07
BALTIMORE (AP) — Spending an hour in traffic or riding mass transit is considered normal for the average Maryland worker. Find Us On Facebook
Not counting accidents and congestion, that's about the time it takes to travel 25 miles beltway-to-beltway between Baltimore and Washington. Those two metropolitan centers have grown as more workers take jobs in the suburbs and commute from adjoining counties.
It adds up to two hours a day commuting time, or about 500 hours a year of dodging unsafe drivers and sitting in lines of fume-spewing stop-and-go traffic. It's about three weeks of a driver's life spent on exhaust-filled highways each year. So...
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