Monday, June 4, 2012

Public transit ridership rising sharply, advocacy group reports

MSNBC: Rising gas prices apparently helped drive a 5 percent increase in public transit ridership in the first three months of 2012, the biggest first-quarter increase in 13 years, transit figures show. NBC stations WGEM of Quincy, Ill., and KTVZ of Bend, Ore., contributed to this report by M. Alex Johnson of msnbc.com. Follow him on Twitter and Facebook. The American Public Transportation Association reported Monday that Americans took almost 125 million more rides on public transit in January, February...

URL: http://usnews.msnbc.msn.com/_news/2012/06/04/12051097-public-transit-ridership-rising-sharply-advocacy-group-reports?lite
Enclosure: http://msnbcmedia.msn.com/i/MSNBC/Sections/NEWS/120604_Transit_Ridership_APTA.pdf

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