Despite rising unemployment and falling gasoline prices, more Americans are using public transport than in the last 52 years, the American Public Transportation Association (APTA) said Monday.
Train, subway and bus rides across the country increased last year by 4.7 percent to 10.7 billion trips, while car use by Americans fell 3.6 percent in miles (kilometers) per year, the APTA said in a report.
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"Given our current economic condition, people are looking for ways to save money and taking public transportation offers a substantial savings of more than 8,000 dollars a year. That's quite a savings," he added.
Rising unemployment in the latter part of 2008, however, slowed down the increase in public transportation ridership from six percent in the third quarter (July-August) to only two percent in the fourth quarter (October-December).
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