Costs - USA - Don't be fueled: Buses also paying more
Ridership isn't growing enough to offset booming diesel costs
Milwaukee,WI,USA - The Milwaukee Journal Sentinel,by LARRY SANDLER -Sept. 4, 2005: -- For the Milwaukee County Transit System and the Lake Express high-speed ferry, the good news is that more people are riding instead of driving... The bad news is that the buses and the ferry need to be filled with diesel fuel at dizzyingly high prices... With regular gas selling for well above $3 a gallon in the wake of Hurricane Katrina, more people seem to be considering alternatives to driving, a trend that started to show up as gas prices passed the $2.50 mark earlier this summer... August figures won't be available for several weeks, but anecdotal evidence suggests bus ridership is growing... Through July, ridership was already up 1%, compared with the same seven months of last year...
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