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It's Better for the Environment
Transit improves air quality and reduces energy needs. For every passenger-mile traveled, transit produces 95 percent less carbon monoxide and about half as much carbon dioxide and nitrogen oxides. It also uses about half the fuel of private automobiles, SUVs and light trucks.
In all, transit users in the U.S. save about 1.4 billion gallons of fuel a year.
On an individual level, if one person switched a 20-mile round trip commute from private vehicle to existing transit, they can reduce their fuel use by more than 200 gallons per year and their total greenhouse gas emissions by 10 percent (for a typical two-adult, two-car household).
But it doesn’t just help the transit user. By using transit, congestion is relieved, meaning better fuel economy for everyone.
This page was last updated on: 10/27/2009
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