HOUSTON, Aug. 17 -- The University of Houston issued the following news release:
Study Finds Strategic Investments in Smaller and Midsize Cities Can Generate Greater
Ridership Gains
By
Laurie Fickman - 713-743-8454
As a Houston METRO bus travels through the city, a University of Houston researcher
finds that transit investments can produce greater ridership gains in smaller and
midsize cities than in the nation's largest metropolitan areas.
Billions of federal dollars are invested in public transportation each year, but those
investments may have bigger ridership gains in smaller and midsize transit systems,
particularly in the South and West, rather than in the nation's largest metropolitan
areas, according to a new study co-authored ...