A Surge in Public Transit
In 2008, the economy prompted many people to take a practical approach and chose public transit. Numbers released from the American Public Transit Association this week showed that the third quarter of 2008 saw the largest quarterly increase in public transportation ridership in 25 years throughout the United States.
Commuters remained on buses, trains and metros at record levels even as gas prices started to fall. According to the report, people took 2.8 billion trips on public transit during the months of July, August and September, a 6.5 percent increase over the same quarter of 2007.
Whether a financial decision or an environmental one, people also increasingly turned to bicycles to get around town. I’m not sure what the numbers are for the 2nd half of 2008, but in July I know that KCCI was reporting that our local DART (Des Moines Area Rapid Transit) had it highest ridership in 24 years.
Now if we can just get the city to work on getting some more modern and fun bus stops.
By MulderDSM
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Posted under Living Downtown | Last modified on December 12th, 2008.
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