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Public transportation trips by older Americans (65 years and older) make up 6.7% of all trips, a total of over 600 million trips in 2007. [5] [6] In the United States, the number of older people is projected to rapidly grow, due to the aging of the Baby Boomer generation. The 65-74 age group is expected to grow 51% by 2020. [7]
The Railbus was a late-1960s Connecticut Company experiment to combine rail and bus services to increase revenue. Now preserved at the Connecticut Trolley Museum . Although Connecticut's bus services were still profitable in the early-1950s, [ 3 ] by the 1960s profitability had significantly decreased. [ 4 ]
A 62ft CTfastrak bus on route 101 at Cedar Street A CTfastrak 40ft bus on route 128 at Flatbush Avenue. As of December 2016, twelve CT Transit routes use the CTfastrak busway with a variety of stopping patterns. [9] Nine routes provide local stopping service on various sections of the busway: [4] 101 Hartford/New Britain
Community Transit operates fixed bus routes throughout the 1,308-square-mile (3,390 km 2) Snohomish County PTBA, serving 47 percent of its 542,000 people and 76 percent of its 254,000 jobs. [ 8 ] : 43–44 [ 133 ] The 46 bus routes serve 1,584 bus stops, of which 257 have a bus shelter—the rest consist of a standalone sign or a sign with a bench.
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CT New Haven [1] is the second largest division of Connecticut Transit, providing service on 24 routes in 19 towns within the Greater New Haven and Lower Naugatuck River Valley areas, with connections to other CT Transit routes in Waterbury and Meriden, as well as connections to systems in Milford and Bridgeport at the Connecticut Post Mall.
When COVID-19 quarantines went into effect in March 2020, they took 31.2% of the agency's fare revenue and over 200,000 riders with them by the end of the 2020 calendar year, according to the most ...
Greater Bridgeport Transit was established in 1971 in anticipation of diminished bus service by the Connecticut Company, which officially ceased operations in Bridgeport in 1972. [3] GBT provides local bus service to the cities/towns of Bridgeport, Trumbull, Stratford, Milford, Fairfield, Westport, Shelton, and Monroe.