{"id":271266034,"date":"2013-08-06T15:40:34","date_gmt":"2013-08-06T15:40:34","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/wp.baltimorespokes.org\/?p=271266034"},"modified":"2013-08-06T15:40:34","modified_gmt":"2013-08-06T15:40:34","slug":"10-reasons-dc-is-oh-so-much-better-than-baltimore","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/wp.baltimorespokes.org\/?p=271266034","title":{"rendered":"10 reasons DC is OH SO MUCH BETTER than Baltimore"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>[B&#8217; Spokes: The bit that relates to this blog:]<br \/>\n************************************************<br \/>\nBy Leo Schmid, Thrillist<\/p>\n<p>&#8230;<br \/>\nPublic Transportation<br \/>\nAs much as DC likes to complain about our metro, it is one of the most efficient, most convenient, and cleanest in the country. Baltimore&#8217;s metro runs East to West only, and doesn&#8217;t link up with either of the two other rail systems. Neither does its North-South-moving light rail. Even Trip Advisor says, &quot;Your best bet is to rent a car.&quot;<br \/>\n&#8230;<\/p>\n<p>[B&#8217; Spokes: And this is worth noting as well. (I believe in having a vibrant outdoor life (like lots of cyclists) would help Baltimore.)]<\/p>\n<p>&#8230;<br \/>\nSafety<br \/>\nSo, with just about the same populations (620K or so), in 2012 Baltimore tallied up 217 homicides. DC had 92. That&#8217;s not very good.<br \/>\n&#8230;<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.thrillist.com\/entertainment\/washington-dc\/10-reasons-dc-is-oh-so-much-better-than-baltimore\">https:\/\/www.thrillist.com\/entertainment\/washington-dc\/10-reasons-dc-is-oh-so-much-better-than-baltimore<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>[B&#8217; Spokes: The bit that relates to this blog:] ************************************************ By Leo Schmid, Thrillist &#8230; Public Transportation As much as DC likes to complain about our metro, it is one of the most efficient, most convenient, and cleanest in the country. Baltimore&#8217;s metro runs East to West only, and doesn&#8217;t link up with either of &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/wp.baltimorespokes.org\/?p=271266034\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;10 reasons DC is OH SO MUCH BETTER than Baltimore&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"1","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[13],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-271266034","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-mass-transit"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/wp.baltimorespokes.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/271266034","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/wp.baltimorespokes.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/wp.baltimorespokes.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wp.baltimorespokes.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wp.baltimorespokes.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=271266034"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/wp.baltimorespokes.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/271266034\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/wp.baltimorespokes.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=271266034"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wp.baltimorespokes.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=271266034"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wp.baltimorespokes.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=271266034"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}