Last year, however, Americans reached an important milestone: according to a new study by the American Public Transit Association, U.S. residents took almost10.7 billion trips on transit, the highest number since 1956.
It’s not just big cities with established rail systems that are seeing all the increases. People are riding the bus, too. Some of the cities that showed record-high ridership numbers included Ann Arbor, Cleveland, Flagstaff, Indianapolis, Salt Lake City, Tampa, and Yuma. One reason for the bump is that cities are now recovering from the recession and are able to pour more financial resources into their transit systems.
via Gizmodo
