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The American Public Transportation Association is a Washington, DC based non-profit organization that serves as an advocate for the advancement of public transportation programs and initiatives in the United States since the organization's founding in 1882. It educates the public about the benefits of public transportation through organized bus, light rail, heavy rail and other programs. It lobbies Congress and local government bodies in favor of public transportation inmprovements and new developments.
Each year, the American Public Transportation Association awards the America's Best Transit System award (formally, the Public Transportation System Outstanding Achievement Award) to a single United States public transportation system. The contest was met with controversy when cities opposed having to compete each year with The Bus, Honolulu's mass transit system, which had won the competition twice. The service provided by the City & County of Honolulu in Hawai'i was removed from competition as other cities felt they could not compete with its standards.
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The AmericanPublicTransportationAssociation is a Washington, DC based non-profit organization that serves as an advocate for the advancement of publictransportation programs and initiatives in the United States since the organization's founding in 1882.
It educates the public about the benefits of publictransportation through organized bus, light rail, rapid transit and other programs.
APTA: Top PublicTransportation Leaders Are Honored By The AmericanPublicTransportationAssociation (APTA).
This website is designed to better inform the public about the benefits and importance of publictransportation for all Americans — even if they never board a train or a bus.
Transportation scored high at the ballot box on Tuesday, winning 21 of 30 measures (3 still pending) totaling $40 billion in urban, suburban, and rural communities across the nation...
Publictransportation ridership has increased by 3.2% in the first six months of 2006, as Americans took nearly 5 billion trips on public transit.
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