Gas prices fuel boost in CATA ridership

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Great news! These are the small steps it may take to get some light-rail in this city. 10 million in ridership is nothing to sneeze at in a metro so small, and makes it the transit system with the second highest ridership in the state:

Gas prices fuel boost in CATA ridership

Bus system may log record 10M users by October

August 11, 2006

By Christine Rook

Lansing State Journal

CATA expects to break a ridership record, logging possibly 10 million riders by October, the start of its fiscal year.

What's driving people out of their cars and onto the bus? Gas prices, say officials.

http://www.lsj.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?A...EWS01/608110347

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