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05/06/08
Drivers leave cars home, use T use at record pace
More Americans using public transit in response to high gas prices.
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Posted by: Susan Altman
By Michael Levenson, Globe Staff | May 6, 2008
Their wallets siphoned by high gas prices, more Americans are taking the subway, bus, or commuter train, particularly in Boston, where officials say the number of subway riders is increasing faster than in New York, Los Angeles, Philadelphia, and Washington, D.C.
MBTA officials said yesterday that the number of rides on the Red, Blue and Orange lines surged almost 10 percent in the first three months of the year, an unusually high increase that they say has put the transit system on track to smash its previous record of 354.1 million rides in 2001.