"Everybody's got an intuition that public transit uses less energy and produces less pollution than private vehicles, I don't know of any previous study that has actually quantified it. The environmental advantages are really very striking because they're so great."
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Robert J. Shapiro, an economist and fellow at Brookings. July 17, 2002
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