By riding the bus you do make a difference.

Find out how riding the bus reduces your carbon footprint with the Carbon Footprint Calculator, and look below to find out even more ways you are helping the environment by riding the bus instead of driving.

Did you know...

• Public transportation saves more than 855 million gallons of gasoline a year. This number is equivalent to the amount of energy used to cool, heat and operate one fourth of all American homes each year.
• Over 200 million passenger cars and light trucks log almost 2 trillion miles on American roads every year. These vehicles are responsible for about 50% of all air pollution nationwide.
• For every mile traveled, public transportation is twice as fuel efficient as private automobiles.
• Americans use more energy for transportation than for any other activity. This amounts to nearly 43% of America’s energy resources. Public transportation can (and does) provide a way to reduce this number.
• Communities benefit from the fact that many individuals choose not to drive.
• Less congestion, better air quality and less overall fuel consumption.
• If Americans could achieve what Europeans have, with roughly 10% of their daily travel needs handled by transit, the U.S. could reduce its dependence on foreign oil by 40%, or roughly the amount we import from Saudi Arabia.
• Soaring gasoline prices, global warming and potential constrictions in the global supply are part of our daily life.
• One full bus takes 30 cars off the road reducing congestion and making the air healthier to breathe. That's comparable to a line of cars six blocks long traveling at 25 mph.