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How serious are you about going green?

You love Austin.
You recycle.
You want to save money.

If you’re serious about going green, you should be riding Capital Metro. Riding public transportation instead of driving is the single most effective way you can reduce your carbon footprint.

Riding Capital Metro for just one day reduces your carbon emissions by about 20 pounds. The benefit to the environment is far greater than some of the common actions people are encouraged to take.

GREEN: Replacing an older refrigerator freezer with a high efficiency one saves 335 pounds of carbon per year.

GREENER: Home weatherizing and adjusting the thermostat for heating and cooling saves 2,847 pounds of carbon per year.

GREENEST: Riding Capital Metro saves 4,800 pounds of carbon per year. [1]

It takes just one commuter switching from daily driving to using public transportation to reduce the household carbon footprint by 10 percent.[2]

Calculate your carbon savings riding public transportation

Conquering Congestion

Austin residents say traffic congestion is the number one challenge facing our region.[3] Aside from its detrimental impact on the environment, traffic congestion also wastes time and money.

Here in Austin, the average driver who is traveling during morning/afternoon rush hours wastes 39 hours per year in gridlock-that’s a full workweek![4]

Capital Metro is part of the solution. Did you know that Capital Metro carries the same number of trips everyday as the MoPac Expressway, eliminating all that added congestion and air pollution? In fact, without Capital Metro, drivers in the Austin area would have to contend with an additional 1.5 million hours stuck in traffic.

The Greenest Wallet

Riding Capital Metro not only helps the environment, but also puts more green in your wallet.

At today’s gas price of $2.46 per gallon, if you decided to give up your car and ride Capital Metro instead, you’d save roughly $7,540 per year.

Capital Metro’s fares are some of the lowest in the nation.

Find out the cost of your commute.

Learn more about the benefits of public transportation.

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[1]Source: American Public Transportation Association
[2]Source: American Public Transportation Association
[3]Source: Envision Central Texas online survey of Central Texas residents, 2008
[4]Source: Texas Transportation Institute 2009 Urban Mobility Study


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