Make public transportation your “other ride.” By taking the rail services just once or twice a week, you can save up to $3036 a year and help save the environment. Check out the RailRunner link for rail options in New Mexico. With full restroom facilities, state of the art security and reliable service, riding the train in Albuquerque is easy and convenient.

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Public Transportation Saves Money:
The average household spends 18 cents on transportation, and 94 percent of this goes to buying, maintaining and operating cars. Public transportation provides an affordable, and for many, necessary alternative to driving. Americans living in areas served by public transportation save $18 billion annually in congestion costs. Each year public transportation households save over $1,399 worth of gas. Transit availability can reduce the need for an additional car, a yearly expense of $6,251 in a household budget.

Public Transportation Reduces Gasoline Consumption:
Each year, public transportation use in the U.S. saves 1.4 billion gallons of gasoline. This represents almost 4 million gallons of gasoline per day. Each year, public transportation use saves the equivalent of 34 supertankers of oil, or a supertanker leaving the Middle East every 11 days. Each year, public transportation use save the equivalent of 140,769 service station tanker truck trips clogging our streets each year. Public transportation use saves the equivalent of 300,000 fewer automobile fill-ups every day.

Public Transportation Eases Traffic Congestion:
According to the most recent Texas Transportation Institute (TTI) report on congestion in the top 85 cities in the US, congestion caused 3.7 billion hours of travel delay and 2.3 billion gallons of wasted fuel in 2003. The study found that the average annual delay per traveler climbed from 16 hours in 1982 to 47 hours in 2003. Without public transportation, nationwide travel delays would have increased by 27 percent, costing residents in 85 urban areas an additional $18 billion in lost time. " In 2003, public transportation in America's most congested cities saved travelers 1.1 billion hours in travel time.