* USA - Your bus Rx: Take 2 daily
Commuters are finding public transportation can be the cure for pricey gas and parking hasslesSeattle,WA,USA -The Seattle Post Intelligencer, by LARRY LANGE -27 April 2007: -- More people are riding buses as gas prices escalate; the higher they get, the more commuters opt for public transit. But parking costs, commuting distance and available jobs also are factors in increased transit ridership... Weekday boardings of Sound Transit buses and trains and King County Metro buses, on average, rose about 7 percent during the first quarter of this year, compared with the first three months of last year. Estimated boardings on buses run by Pierce Transit went up more than 2 percent; Community Transit's ridership increased more than 1 percent... Metro set a record for ridership in 2006, and this year a sales tax increase is adding new service which has attracted more passengers... (Photo by Joshua Trujillo / P-I: Bus rider Son Vardy, left, checks which stop his bus is at in Ballard during the evening commute on Thursday on the 15 Express bus from downtown Seattle)
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