More people rode public transit last year than any time 
in the last 60 years

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The American Public Transportation Association’s latest figures, released in March, show that more people in the US used public transit in 2013 than at any time in nearly 60 years. That amounts to a whopping 10.65 billion passenger trips, beating the previous record in 1956 and a more recent peak in 2008, when gas cost more than $4 a gallon and 10.59 million trips were taken.

This time around high gas prices aren’t the main reason for the spike.  The trend is more about a basic shift in attitudes about how people travel in their cities. “Now gas is averaging well under $4 a gallon, the economy is coming back and people are riding transit in record numbers,” says Michael Melaniphy, president of the advocacy group. “We’re seeing a fundamental shift in how people are moving about their communities.”
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Reported by Jessica Leber for Co.Exist
Posted June 2014

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