A New Low For Transit Ridership

In an editorial, Wendell Cox charges that transit ridership has set a new record -- an all time low.

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July 13, 2002, 7:00 AM PDT

"Not in the 40-year history of census commuting information have fewer people used transit to get to work. As a result, transit's work-trip market share is also at a record low and is probably at the lowest rate since before the streetcar was invented in the 1880s. Now, just 4.7 percent of people use transit to get to work... For decades, U.S. policies have sought to attract people to transit from cars. It just hasn't worked. Transportation policy should be refocused toward making the automobile system work better. There is no other way to realistically address traffic congestion."

Thanks to Laura Kranz

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