Transit News Features

More Than $9,000 Saved Annually by Individuals Who ‘Dump the Pump’ and Help Save the Environment by Riding Public Transportation

Riding public transportation can save an individual an average of $9,068 a year based on the June 17, 2009 national average gas price and the unreserved monthly parking rate, according to the American Public Transportation Association (APTA). This is the highest annual transit savings recorded for this year, as gas prices have increased by 95 cents since January.

More Than Half of Vacationers Traveling to Cities This Summer Will Use Local Public Transit System -- Travelers cite use of public transit to help stretch their travel budget

As Americans look for ways to cut travel cost this Memorial Day weekend, many vacationers seek affordability through the use of a city’s local public transportation system. According to APTA’s Green Travel Forecast, a new travel survey released by the American Public Transportation Association, 51 percent of summer vacationers responded that they will use a city’s local public transportation system to get around during their visit.

Obama Puts Nation On A Path To Serious Train Service

A robust American rail system is about more than tracks and train sets. It will make us less oil dependent, undergirding our national security. It will lower our carbon emissions. And it can contribute in a big way to the mobility and economic health of "megaregions," those metropolitan areas where most Americans now live.

Public Transportation Is Safe -- Public Transit Systems Have Precautionary Procedures In Place

The millions of people who take public transportation should continue to do so, knowing that public transit systems already have procedures in place to deal with seasonal flu outbreaks and are closely monitoring the H1N1 virus (swine flu) outbreak.

Transit systems regularly clean facilities, vehicles, and fare vending equipment with high-grade germicidal solutions and will take additional measures as appropriate. Coordination on this issue is happening between transit systems and federal agencies.

Two Out of Three Jobs Created by Public Transit Investment Replace Jobs Hardest Hit by Economic Downturn -- New Study Shows $1 Billion Investment in Public Transportation Yields 30,000 Jobs

A new study released today shows that investing in public transportation provides jobs to the American workers who may need them the most. Job Impacts of Spending on Public Transportation: an Update shows that two-thirds (67 percent) of the jobs created by capital investment in the public transit industry replaces lost blue-collar jobs with “green jobs” in the public transit sector.