Cars are now the most efficient and least polluting in history, and transit ridership has grown by 10 percent.
Public transit riders has grown in number since Katrina.
In the past eight years, use of the public transit system there has grown from 14 million passengers a year to 52 million.
The application of CCTV systems in public spaces, especially mass transit facilities, for surveillance and protection purposes has grown at a considerable rate (Sanderson et al., 2007; March Networks News, 2008).
Interestingly, "despite all the talk of increased mass transit usage, the percentage of Americans working at home has grown 1.5 times faster over the past decade; there are now more telecommuters than people who take mass transit to work in 38 out of the 52 U.S. metropolitan areas with more than one million residents", he writes.
They say the deficit has grown in large part because the transit system's expenses have increased while the average fare, with MetroCard discounts, has dropped to $1.04 since 1995, when the last increase took the base fare to $1.50.
"Doesn't it just seem ridiculous?" Ms. Dolinsky asks, but adds that she has grown tired, finally, of being the resident light bulb lady at transit meetings.
The Zipcar program, which provides a bridge between mass transit and destinations not served by bus or train, started in Boston in 1999 and has grown to more than 50 cities in North America and Europe.
In 15 months, card usage has grown to 500,000 transactions, systemwide, per weekday, according to the Metropolitan Transportation Commission, the regional transit agency that oversees the program.
The number of elevators has grown significantly since 1990, when the Americans With Disabilities Act set off a transformation of the aging transit system.
