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As President Joe Biden urges more f ederal spending for public transportation, transit agencies decimated by COVID-19 are trying to figure out how to win back passengers. It’s made more urgent by the climate change crisis. Biden has pledged to cut U.S. greenhouse gas emissions at least in half by the end of the decade. That aggressive target will require Americans to ditch gas-guzzling cars for electric vehicles or embrace mass transit. “We have a huge opportunity here to provide fast, safe, reliable, clean transportation in this country, and transit is part of the infrastructure,” Bide...

Public transit hopes to win back riders after crushing year Associated Press 1 hr ago By HOPE YEN, CHRISTOPHER WEBER, SOPHIA TAREEN and DAVID PORTER, Associated Press © Provided by Associated Press In this April 27, 2021, photo Brad Hudson poses as a Los Angeles Metro train goes by in South Pasadena, Calif. As President Joe Biden urges more federal spending for public transportation, transit agencies decimated by COVID-19 are struggling with a new uncertainty: how to win passengers back. (AP Photo/Mark J. Terrill) WASHINGTON (AP) — Taking the Los Angeles Metro for his f...

It could take years to get riders back. Transit agencies say they're trying different approaches to win over riders