WHO RIDES THE BUS?
A recent survey of riders on Rapid Transit District buses found:
Age: 64% of the riders are 15-34 years of age.
Income: 61% earn less than $15,000 per year.
Ethnicity: 50.4% Latino; 20.8% black; 19.5% white; 7.9% Asian; 1.4% other.
Car ownership: 22% have no car in their household; 41% have one car; 24% have two cars.
Car availability: 72% said they could not have used a car to make the trip; 9% said they could have driven, but chose the bus; and 10% said they could have gotten a ride in a car with someone else driving.
Destination: 44% work; 18% school; 12% shopping; 5% medical.
Some figures do not total 100% because some riders gave no response.
Source: Rapid Transit District
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