America's Rail Revival

Commuters and urban dwellers coast-to-coast are climbing aboard new light rail train systems.

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March 11, 2001, 7:00 AM PST

By Christian Madera @http://www.twitter.com/cpmadera

"Public transportation in America is often dismissed as a nostalgia trip. Yet worsening traffic congestion and climbing gasoline prices are now encouraging many people to give transit another try. Progress, the newsletter of the Surface Transportation Policy Project, reports (Nov. 2000) that public transportation ridership jumped from 7.9 billion in 1996 to 9.1 billion in 1999, a 15 percent increasenearly double the 7.8 percent increase in automobile miles driven over the same period."

Thanks to Rebecca Retzlaff

FULL STORY: America's Rail Revival

Friday, March 9, 2001 in Utne Reader

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