How fast is your bus? WMATA maps bus speeds

This would be cool for Baltimore as well. Greater Greater Washington has this recolored "thumbnail" that shows the bus speeds from green (fastest) through cyan to dark blue (slowest) because the original color choices were bad.
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The sad bit for me is the average speed of the buses, which I'll redefine as walking, casual bike riding, intermediate bike riding and bike racing speeds. I believe that if alternate transportation was better thought out and supported, biking and walking could (mostly) take over having to have slow bus routes, leaving more buses to be faster and more of a competition for fast convenient travel.

Or stated a bit differently, if you are in decent shape getting around DC (and most likely Baltimore as well) is faster by bike then by bus, and I find that rather sad. http://greatergreaterwashington.org/post.cgi?id=6612

by B' Spokes

Like most people I live a hectic life and who has the time for much exercise? Thanks to xtracycle now I do. By using my bike for daily activities I can get things done and get an hour plus work out in 15 minutes extra of my time, not a bad deal and beats taking the extra time going to the gym. In case you are still having trouble being motivated; the National Center of Disease Control says that inactivity is the #2 killer in the United States just behind smoking. ( http://www.cdc.gov/nccdphp/bb_nutrition/ ) Get out there and start living life! I can carry home a full shopping cart of groceries, car pool two kids or just get lost in the great outdoors camping for a week. Well I got go, another outing this weekend.
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