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February 2012 TBARTA Board Meeting
WHERE
USF Connect Oak View Room
3720 Spectrum Blvd
Tampa, FL, 33612WHEN
02/24/2012 9:30am
Public Transportation - Environmental Impacts
- Each year, public transportation use in the U.S. saves 1.4 billion gallons of gasoline. This represents almost 4 million gallons of gasoline per day.
American Public Transit Association, 2007. - Each year, public transportation use saves the equivalent of 34 supertankers of oil, or a supertanker leaving the Middle East every 11 days.
American Public Transit Association, 2007. - Each year, public transportation use saves the equivalent of 140,769 service station tanker truck trips clogging our streets each year.
American Public Transit Association, 2007. - Public transportation use saves the equivalent of 300,000 fewer automobile fill-ups every day.
American Public Transit Association, 2007. - The typical public transit rider consumes on average one half of the oil consumed by an automobile rider.
American Public Transit Association, 2007.
