Comments on: US Public Transportation Trips Topped 10.4 Billion in 2011 http://cleantechnica.com/2012/03/15/us-public-transportation-trips-topped-10-4-billion-in-2011/ Clean Tech News & Views: Solar Energy News. Wind Energy News. EV News. & More. Mon, 29 Dec 2014 17:56:00 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=4.0.1 By: Top 10 Transit Systems in U.S. - CleanTechnica http://cleantechnica.com/2012/03/15/us-public-transportation-trips-topped-10-4-billion-in-2011/#comment-119885 Tue, 01 May 2012 13:10:49 +0000 http://cleantechnica.com/?p=36083#comment-119885 […] can save over $10,000 a year switching from driving to public transit! Likely, for this reason, trips on public transit went above 10 billion in 2011. Meanwhile, “the average annual number of vehicle miles traveled by young people (16 to […]

]]> By: Rachel G http://cleantechnica.com/2012/03/15/us-public-transportation-trips-topped-10-4-billion-in-2011/#comment-115952 Mon, 19 Mar 2012 19:22:00 +0000 http://cleantechnica.com/?p=36083#comment-115952 How do these trends correspond with the growing population? I think it is great that public transportation use has increased, however it is important to consider the stress a growing population places on public transportation. Will it be affordable for cities to update their outdated public transport methods?

]]> By: Zachary Shahan http://cleantechnica.com/2012/03/15/us-public-transportation-trips-topped-10-4-billion-in-2011/#comment-115813 Sat, 17 Mar 2012 19:24:00 +0000 http://cleantechnica.com/?p=36083#comment-115813 Yep, remember learning about this crisis in grad school for city planning… 5-7 years ago. Only getting worse. Unfort., the U.S. public has a hard time putting 2 & 2 together (especially with the help of lying, superficial Congresspeople)

]]> By: Mattpeffly http://cleantechnica.com/2012/03/15/us-public-transportation-trips-topped-10-4-billion-in-2011/#comment-115660 Thu, 15 Mar 2012 12:29:00 +0000 http://cleantechnica.com/?p=36083#comment-115660 So while it would never fly in DC today. If we raised the gas tax enought to cover the hole in the highway fund, most people would switch their “driving” habits.

Note even if you don’t want new highways, this tax need to go up so existing bridges can be fixed; or we have to start closing a lot of roads. Side benifit of raising thiss tax is we then need less new roads.

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