In the United States, people go to work by car: only 5.2% of people do so by public transportation, largely due to lack of access. And public transportation is not available for almost half of Americans, 45%. The use of this system contrasts between large urban areas and suburbs, but also between whites, African Americans and Hispanics, and shows some of these inequalities in the first world economy.
73% of public transportation trips in the country are concentrated in ten metropolitan areas: New York, Chicago, Los Angeles, Washington DC, San Francisco, Boston, Philadelphia, Seattle, Miami and Atlanta. While its regular use is 6% in suburbs and 3% in rural areas, 10% of inhabitants use it in urban areas, with the northeast area – which houses New York, Washington DC and Philadelphia – very above the national average. Public transport use in urban areas sometimes exceeds that in European cities: for example, 56% of people use it to get to work in New York, home to 8.4 million people, up from 37% It does so in London, with 8.9 million. Furthermore, while…