G.E. Equipped PCCs/transit ridership

[HRBran99 at aol.com]

In a message dated 07/19/2000 10:30:35 AM Eastern Daylight Time, 
j_swindler at hotmail.com writes:

<< read Passenger Transport, published by 
 the American Public Transit Association.  They recently reported that 
 transit ridership has been increasing in recent years, and is back to the 
 levels experienced in the early 1960s. >>

>From "Transit Fact Book," by APTA, 1999:

1960 -- 9.4 billion trips on public transit -- 13% of all trips (auto and 
transit)
1965 -- 8.3 billion trips on public transit --   9% of all trips (auto and 
transit)
1995 -- 7.0 billion trips on public transit --   2% of all trips (auto and 
transit)
1997 -- 7.4 billion trips on public transit --   2.005% of all trips (auto & 
transit)

A slight increase, but not near the number of total transit trips and very 
far away from the percentage of auto vs. transit trips.

Transit is on a decline which will never end. The glory days ended some time 
ago. Unless some catastrophic event takes place (crude oil supply depletes; 
widespread war; total economic collapse, etc.) public transit will never be 
the same as it was even 25 years ago.

HrB