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* On average, highway users paid $1.91 per thousand passenger-miles to the federal government over their highway allocated cost during 1990-2002.
Seattle light rail: No park-and-ride lots (Jack Bog's Blog) 2009
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As a result, Amtrak receives the highest per-passenger federal subsidy of any mode: $237.53 per 1,000 passenger-miles compared to $4.23 per 1,000 passenger-miles for commercial aviation.
President Obama Sees Amtrak as Key to America's Transportation Ronald Utt 2011
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Transit has been declining for so long that it now provides less than 2% of passenger-miles of transportation in the United States.
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* On a per thousand passenger-miles basis, transit received the second highest net federal subsidy, second to passenger rail, averaging $118.26 in year 2000 chained dollars.
Seattle light rail: No park-and-ride lots (Jack Bog's Blog) 2009
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* On average, highway users paid $1.91 per thousand passenger-miles to the federal government over their highway allocated cost during 1990-2002.
Seattle light rail: No park-and-ride lots (Jack Bog's Blog) 2009
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After 40 years of growth, light rail provides less than 4% of passenger-miles of travel by mass transit, and less than four one-hundredths of one percent of passenger-miles of travel by private automobile.
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Measured by passenger-miles traveled, Amtrak represents one-tenth of 1 percent of the national total.
High-speed rail is a fast track to government waste Robert J. Samuelson 2011
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It found passenger rail service had the highest subsidy ($186.35 per thousand passenger-miles) followed by mass transit ($118.26 per thousand miles).
High-speed rail is a fast track to government waste Robert J. Samuelson 2011
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Transit has been declining for so long that it now provides less than 2% of passenger-miles of transportation in the United States.
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* On a per thousand passenger-miles basis, transit received the second highest net federal subsidy, second to passenger rail, averaging $118.26 in year 2000 chained dollars.
Seattle light rail: No park-and-ride lots (Jack Bog's Blog) 2009
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