Public transit ridership is falling in Southern California as more low-income residents purchase cars, according to a report released Wednesday by the UCLA Institute of Transportation Studies.
The report was commissioned by the Southern California Association of Governments and analyzed data for the agency’s service territory, including the counties of Los Angeles, Orange, Riverside, San Bernardino, Ventura and Imperial.
. . .The report found that the large majority of transit riders in the studied region were concentrated in low income, often immigrant communities. While car ownership in the region has rapidly increased since 2000, it has done so most dramatically among those populations
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