Who Rides Transit? – An illuminating illustration by The Infrastructurist
(Source: The Infrastructurist)
Our friends at The Infrastructurist compiled the national results from that study and compare them with the demographics of transit systems in three U.S. cities: Washington, D.C., Portland, Oregon, and San Francisco (well, the Bay Area). The snapshot offers an intriguing insight into which Americans choose not to drive to work.
If FTA can spend a bunch of money on such a compilation for the entire US, that would greatly benefit many of our professionals engaged in transportation planning & policy research. An analysis on the issue of social equity and its underpinning to transportation alternatives would be very helpful to say the least as the country’s demographics has undergone a signficiant shift in the past decade or two.