Riders * USA - Packing buses for 'a long haul'
DART's numbers climb as many find $1.15 fare a cheap alternative
(Photo by ROBERT CRAIG/The News Journal - Riders outnumber seats Monday on the trip from Claymont to Wilmington on DART's Route 1 bus. Use of public transportation grew in Del. from 2.7 percent in 2007 to 3.8 percent in 2008)
Wilmington,DEL,USA -Delaware on Line/The News Journal, by MIKE CHALMERS -October 14, 2009: ... More commuters have joined Brooks lately as high gas prices, expanded service and a desire to trim personal expenses prompted a small spike in people taking a bus or train to work in 2008, new data from the U.S. Census Bureau show. It estimated 3.8 percent of Delaware commuters took public transportation last year, compared to 2.7 percent in 2007... Yet Delaware's public-transit commuters continue to trail the rest of the nation where 5 percent of commuters took public transportation to work last year... Fares covered just 13 percent of the $76.3 million it cost Delaware Transit Corp. to operate its statewide bus system. Among similarly sized transit systems nationwide, fares covered 20 percent of costs in 2007, the latest year available from the the National Transit Database, compiled by the Federal Transit Administration... Increasing the number of people using public transportation helps operators boost their fare revenues, said Mantill Williams, spokesperson at the American Public Transportation Association, a trade group. And that means making the service more available to more people, he said...
(Photo by ROBERT CRAIG/The News Journal - Tracy Price, 52, waits for the Route 1 bus Monday at Fifth and Orange streets in Wilmington. The Route 1 bus carries about 800,000 people a year between Wilmington and Claymont, with buses running every half hour weekdays from 5 a.m. to 11 p.m.)
DART buses run into Kent and Sussex counties, even though they lack the density of commuters in northern New Castle County, he said...
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