why many people think public transportation is big dirty old air polluting buses that runs in big cities??

the american public transportation association has links to many of the bus transit systems and mass transit systems,as in,the united states of america,puerto rico and the territories at www.apta.com/links/state_local/index.cfm and by the way most of the bus systems in the united states are not in big cities. apta's links to canada and other parts of the world can be reached at www.apta.com/links/international . the homepage of the american public transportation association is www.apta.com

Public Comments

1. even though those buses so blow alot of smoke that also haul 50 people. i doubt that, that one bus give off more exhaust then 50 cars do. Also in NYC many of the bus are switch to hybid buses.
2. It is in Chicago. I was vacationing there and staying in a hotel in the city. Each day I rode the bus up and down the famous "Mile" and I can tell you that it was ugly and it was packed each time with too many people. So inside and outside it was dirty, old, and air polluting.
3. City buses not has only contributed to this air pollution problem, emissions from cars and trucks especially ones powered by diesel fuel and from industries and power plants. Most modern buses are powered by either low sulfur diesel fuel, natural gas or hybrids that are powered by either by natural gas/electric or diesel/electric. MTA New York City Transit the nation's largest transportation agency, has a large fleet of these buses that serve the 5 boroughs of the city. http://www.mta.nyc.ny.us/nyct/facts/ffenvironment.htm
4. Do you drive your car along some roads that busses also drive? Either city busses or school busses. Are you behind one when it arrives at bus stop, and you stop behind it? Are you driving with your car windows open? Do you notice pollution coming from the bus exhaust that is any more or less than trucks, cars? It may be the city I am in, but seems to me that bus pollution is microscopic today, compared to what I noticed 20 years ago. Used to be, bus pollution was like truck pollution. Although I have noticed a lot of trucks now have a stove pipe that sends the pollution straight up over the cab, not at pedestrian level.