DOE: transit rail ridership increasing, while transit bus ridership declining

Green Car Congress
By mmillikinDec 29, 2017, 6:00 am209 pts
Transit bus ridership in the US historically has been higher than transit rail ridership. In 1990, for example, there were 5.74 billion unlinked bus trips (64.1% of the total), but only 2.89 billion rail transit trips (32.3%), according to data gathered by the US Department of Energy (DOE). Source: DOE. This…

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