How much does public transportation cost where you live?

[Very_Boring_Name]

It's up to $3.50 per ride where I live. Every time the city needs some cash the very first thing they do is raise the bus fair. I think it's pretty disgusting how services for low income people are always the very first thing to be cut.

[dkf]

1. $2.50 per ride in Honolulu.

Hmm last time I rode it I swear I paid $2.00. But then it went up to $2.25 and now $2.50.

[Arkansas Granny]

2. $1.00 per ride in Ft. Smith, AR.

[WI_DEM]

3. Madison, WI $2.00 ride bus, but they have pretty good deals with bus passes

for the month and for students, seniors and disabled. My job has a fabulous deal and has had it for two years now $5 for one year bus pass.

[w8liftinglady]

4. we don't have it.

In Ellis County- Taxis are the only "Public Transportation".
Even in Arlington (home of Cowboy Stadium)... private transportation only.

[Maine_Nurse]

25. We only have it in about 5 communities in the entire state.

[pipi_k]

5. Not sure what it costs to rent a horse and wagon out here....

although some kindly neighbors might offer a ride on their ATVs for free...


:7

[HereSince1628]

6. The ride is cheap, the Artic Parka needed to await a bus? Priceless

well, not priceless exactly, although somedays it would be worth much more...but ten years ago it was $600 when I was buying equipment to work above the arctic circle on the White Sea.

[CurtEastPoint]

7. Atlanta = $2 flat fare, bus and/or train, passes are cheaper. n/t

[leftynyc]

8. $250 for the subway/bus in NYC

All the commuter railroads had an increase last year. My train ride is 35 minutes into Grand Central and I pay $239/month.

[Erose999]

9. Its something like $1.75 or $1.50 here in Athens GA. Free for UGA students and staff (which is me).

Its so awesome to be able to ride the bus for free every day and not worry about parking on campus.

[cali]

10. There is very little public transportation where I live.

All we have is this, and with the cuts Obama is proposing, it will probably be defunded.

http://www.riderct.org/About%20RCT.htm

[Brickbat]

11. There isn't any where I'm at. I live in a rural area.

[elocs]

12. La Crosse, WI (50,000): $1.25, $.60 for seniors. Monthly pass is $30 unlimited rides.

Students ride for free with student ID.

[Doremus]

13. $2.25

[RockaFowler]

What Public Transportation

[Autumn]

14. I'm rural

there is none.

[MindPilot]

15. what's public transportation?

[JackintheGreen]

16. $2 for the bus

Commuter train is more, but $6 gets me 16 miles from my house to the university.

[ProgressiveProfessor]

17. I am out in the twigs...never seen public transportation anywhere near here

There is supposed to be some sort of county wide dial-a-ride, but I have never tried them

[delightfulstar]

18. $1.75 a ride in PHX...

Better to pay $3.50 and get an all-day pass or $17 for a weekly, honestly. PT here isn't quite as good as somewhere like Chicago or NYC (that's to be expected), but it's decent.

[LibDemAlways]

19. If you were asking in Europe, you wouldn't be getting responses

like, "What public transportation?" Just goes to show you what a backward country this is.

For the record, there is no public transportation in my neck of the woods - a suburb 1 hour from downtown LA.

[Motown_Johnny]

20. $1.50 for Detroit area buses, $.50 for the Downtown People Mover (Train)

I think bus fare for seniors is free but I would need to check on that. Students get a discount but I don't know exactly what that is either.


You can also buy monthly passes which is less expensive if you ride often.



I did do the math on it a few years ago and it isn't much less expensive than what I pay to have and use my car (which is payed off and gets 28+ mpg on average). I could save about a buck a day if I spent all that extra time using the bus.

[Zephie]

21. .75 on the SCAT bus in Sarasota County, FL

SCAT bus, the most unfortunately named public transportation in the country.

[CrispyQ]

22. We have an excellent bus system in the Denver/Boulder area.

Bus service in Boulder is $2.25. You can buy monthly bus passes or coupon books which cut the cost somewhat. Some employers buy into the Ecopass program, where employees get a bus pass that is good for all service & the employee pays nothing.

[Motown_Johnny]

23. When I lived in Vail CO. the in town buses were free

that was years ago and it was mostly for the tourists but residents took advantage of it also.


Going from Vail to Avon (the next major town) cost $1.00 back then, it could easily be more now.

[kestrel91316]

24. $1.50 per ride, no transfers. Monthly pass is $70. Not bad until you consider how much

the routes ON MAJOR THOROUGHFARES have been slashed of late.

Takes me almost as lont to walk the 2 miles to work as it does to walk to the bus and then wait for it to show up.

[originalpckelly]

26. $2.25 for RTD (Denver) regular fare, and $1.10 for discounted fare.

[csziggy]

27. I live in the country - no public transportation

In town, the local bus system is $1.25 a ride, free transfers. monthly pass $38.00, reduced fares for seniors and kids 17 and under. All buses are bike and wheelchair accessible and they have a special Dial-A-Ride for $2.50 a trip.

The closest the buses come to me is the shopping center about five miles away or the hospital about nine miles away.

[muriel_volestrangler]

28. It's about $6 for a 7 mile return trip by bus

That's in Hampshire, England. Train is slightly cheaper - more like $5.

[kctim]

29. No idea, don't use it

[PVnRT]

30. There is none here

[Retrograde]

31. $2 in San Francisco, not sure what it is down here

in Santa Clara Co., since I don't take it: the Powers that Be who run the county transit are on record as saying that they can't be expected to serve the outlying areas. We do have (for the time being) decent train service to SF, so that taking the train and bus is cheaper than driving and paying for parking in the city. Recently the area transit agencies have started getting together to use the same electronic payment system on all the systems, which saves having to carry change (we're only a decade or so behind London).