Rays’ owner Stuart Sternberg was part of a panel discussion about sports in Tampa last night, and he was asked what he has learned about Tampa Bay since he bought the Rays. His answer made me laugh:
I’ve only lived in a place with real traffic for three years. That was Washington, and I took the subway everywhere so it didn’t really affect me. People I still know there, though, pretty much subscribe to the notion that Virginia-to-DC is tolerable and Maryland-to-DC is tolerable, but that Virginia-to-Maryland is almost always a deal breaker. Friends in the San Fancisco Bay Area likewise tell me that one bridge is doable, but if you need to take two bridges to get someplace, dude, forget it.
So, are people in Tampa Bay just one bridge more lazy than people in other cities?
