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Public Transit Users Can Save $826 a Month Over Driving
APTA's November Transit Savings Report shows that people who use public transit and live with one less car in a two-person household could save an average of $826 a month or $9,913 a year. Click here to see the savings in the top 20 cities with the highest public transit ridership.
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SAVE THE DATE
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Make plans to attend these upcoming APTA conferences:
Transit CEOs Seminar
February 10-12, 2018
Miami, FL
Legal Affairs Seminar
February 25-27, 2018
Palm Springs, CA
Marketing & Communications Workshop
February 25-28, 2018
San Francisco, CA
Legislative Conference
March 18-20, 2018
Washington, DC
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IN THE MEDIA
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Going Carless in Greenville—A speech pathologist in Greenville, SC, shares her experiences with giving up the car and finding a community among public transit riders.
Coffee Powers London Buses—Transport for London is preparing to fuel some of its buses with a biofuel created by blending oil extracted from coffee waste. Other city buses already operate with biofuel using waste products such as cooking oil and tallow from meat processing. See the BBC report.
Thanks for Your Help—Keolis, operator of commuter rail in Boston, thanked an 11-year-old boy who notified the company of a fallen tree blocking the tracks during a recent storm by inviting him to ride in the engineer's booth of a control car.
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The New York Metropolitan Transportation Authority has named Andy Byford president of MTA New York City Transit. Byford has headed the Toronto Transit Commission for the past five years, part of a career covering almost three decades with tenures in London and Sydney. He succeeds Veronique
(Ronnie) Hakim, who is now MTA managing director.
