By Adam Bluestein, Real Simple
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Category 1: Getting around –Includes average commute, walkability, traffic congestion, airport on-time performance.
Category 2: Health and safety –Includes average wait to get a doctor’s appointment, physicians per capita, response times of emergency medical services.
Category 3: Information and technology — Includes broadband and wireless availability, bookstores and libraries per capita, helpful resources such as 311 hotlines.
Category 4: Green time-savers — Includes recycling access and cost, number of farmers’ markets and community gardens, bike friendliness.
Category 5: Lifestyle — Includes number of personal trainers and organizers, restaurants offering takeout per capita, miscellaneous time-saving services.
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11. Baltimore –Score: 16.5 — Population: 636,919
In the top tier of wired cities, Baltimore also has stellar recycling and a popular public-transit system. Bonus: Book Thing, a local nonprofit, gives away thousands of donated books every weekend, offering visitors as many as they can take. Talk about a way to build a library.
Getting around: 3.5
Health and safety: 3
Information and technology: 4
Green time-savers: 4
Lifestyle: 2
https://www.cnn.com/2010/LIVING/wayoflife/03/15/rs.top.time.saving.cities/index.htmloldId.20100605185122182