While other reports focus on growth in travel and tourism across oceans and continents, another figure has been growing, too. U.S. mass transit, once spoken of mainly in the past tense by planners focused on a car-centric future, has climbed back in recent years with new investment in old systems and build-out of new rail and enhanced bus systems.
BloombergBusiness news reports that public ridership was up 1% to 10.8 billion for 2014, the highest since 11 billion in 1956. The figures include a small drop in bus ridership and a notable rise in rail. Is the love affair with commuting by car over? DETAILS
Photo: Wikimedia / Tim1965, showing new Washington D.C. tram that will soon begin service.
