[PRCo] Fw: Average Income of Transit Users

[Jim Holland]

"James Robinson"  wrote in message news:...
 > Jack often writes about how higher income people wouldn't think of
 > riding transit, that it is only provided for the relatively poor part of
 > the population.
 >
 > APTA has release a report on the demographics of transit users, which
 > has the following breakdown of incomes:
 >
 > "Public transportation riders report a wide range of household incomes.
 > Household incomes less than $15,000 are reported by 20.1 percent of
 > public transit riders; 45.6 percent report incomes from $15,000 to
 > $49,999; 24.8 percent report incomes from $50,000 to $99,999; and 9.5
 > percent report incomes of $100,000 or more."
 >
 > So it appears that contrary to Jack's assertions, The spread of 
incomes is
 > not that much different than the population as a whole. People with 
money
 > do ride transit.
 >
 > Here is the news release on ridership changes and the survey:
 >
 > http://www.apta.com/media/releases/070104_ridership_increases.cfm

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Jim  Holland
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