Gas Prices Soar * USA - More commuters hop buses, trains
Local commuters are turning to mass transit in droves
Denver,COL,USA -The Seattle Times, by Clifford Krauss -10 May 2008: -- With the price of gasoline approaching $4 a gallon, more commuters are leaving their cars at home and taking trains or buses... Mass-transit systems nationwide are seeing standing-room-only crowds on bus lines where seats once were easy to come by. Parking lots at many bus and light-rail stations suddenly are overflowing with commuters in some towns...
· Sound Transit: Ridership grew 12.3 percent in 2007, according the agency. The biggest increase was on the Sounder, at 27.4 percent.
· Metro: Ridership has grown 18 percent in the past three years, a spokeswoman said.
· Community Transit: Ridership was up 11 percent in the first three months of the year, a spokesman said.
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