The Highest Transit Ridership in 57 Years

[finehoe]

How does that stack up to the population 57 years ago as a percentage?

They don't say, but they do note that in "the 18 year period from 1995-2013, public transportation ridership grew 37.2 percent, almost double the amount of the population growth at 20.3 percent" and that "the highest U.S. public transit ridership number in history was 23.5 billion trips in 1946."

http://www.apta.com/mediacenter/ptbenefits/Pages/Public-Transportation-Use-is-Growing-.aspx

[simms3]

Interesting, so we're still at about 1/2 the previous high water mark for transit use (which appears to be merely a decade before the year we just passed, 1957), and the US population is now well over 2x what it was then!

We still have a long way to go - not sure we'll ever hit transit use as percentage of trips taken for so many reasons.

[finehoe]

They also say that 45 percent of American households do not have access to any public transportation at all.