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Benefits
Public transportation is a safe and affordable way to commute that saves energy, reduces traffic congestion and helps the environment. It has many benefits for individuals and communities:
Saves you money: According to “The Transit Savings Report,” a monthly report issued by the American Public Transportation Association, public transportation users can save an average of $764 per month, or about $9,167 annually. (Based on a national average gas price of $2.628 and monthly unreserved parking space cost of $154.23.) See how much you can save using public transportation.
Helps protect the environment: Automobile emissions contribute to smog, global warming and public health problems. By helping to reduce the number of cars on the road, public transportation offers many benefits to the environment:
Cars account for about 50 percent of air pollution nationwide. Each year, public transportation use avoids the emission of more than 126 million pounds of hydrocarbons, the primary cause of smog, and 156 million pounds of nitrogen oxides, which can cause respiratory disease.
Public transit vehicles emit fewer pollutants than single-passenger automobiles. For example, buses emit 80 percent less carbon monoxide than a car. Rail emits almost none.
Public transportation helps reduce dependence on foreign oil, reducing auto fuel consumption by 1.5 billion gallons annually. Many U.S. transit systems are continuing to invest in compressed natural gas, low-sulfur burning buses or diesel-electric hybrid buses.
Learn more about public transportation and the environment.
Reduces traffic congestion: Traffic conditions are already bad. But if it wasn’t for public transportation, roadways would be completely overwhelmed. About 30,000 passengers can be carried on a single U.S. subway line in one hour. If those riders drove instead, 10 additional highway lanes would be needed. Consider that if every American who takes public transit to work drove alone, they would fill a
Public transportation is a safe and affordable way to commute that saves energy, reduces traffic congestion and helps the environment. It has many benefits for individuals and communities:
Saves you money: According to “The Transit Savings Report,” a monthly report issued by the American Public Transportation Association, public transportation users can save an average of $764 per month, or about $9,167 annually. (Based on a national average gas price of $2.628 and monthly unreserved parking space cost of $154.23.) See how much you can save using public transportation.
Helps protect the environment: Automobile emissions contribute to smog, global warming and public health problems. By helping to reduce the number of cars on the road, public transportation offers many benefits to the environment:
Cars account for about 50 percent of air pollution nationwide. Each year, public transportation use avoids the emission of more than 126 million pounds of hydrocarbons, the primary cause of smog, and 156 million pounds of nitrogen oxides, which can cause respiratory disease.
Public transit vehicles emit fewer pollutants than single-passenger automobiles. For example, buses emit 80 percent less carbon monoxide than a car. Rail emits almost none.
Public transportation helps reduce dependence on foreign oil, reducing auto fuel consumption by 1.5 billion gallons annually. Many U.S. transit systems are continuing to invest in compressed natural gas, low-sulfur burning buses or diesel-electric hybrid buses.
Learn more about public transportation and the environment.
Reduces traffic congestion: Traffic conditions are already bad. But if it wasn’t for public transportation, roadways would be completely overwhelmed. About 30,000 passengers can be carried on a single U.S. subway line in one hour. If those riders drove instead, 10 additional highway lanes would be needed. Consider that if every American who takes public transit to work drove alone, they would fill a