Increased use of Public Transportation provides significant, direct environmental and health benefits and helps reduce smog-producing pollutants, greenhouse gases and run-off from paved surfaces that degrades the water supply.

Customers can get trip planning assistance at Miami-Dade Transit, or by calling 305-770-3131. Residents living south of Southwest 216th Street should call 305-891-3131.

Some facts about the environmental benefits of Transit:

• Public Transportation reduces annual emissions of the pollutants that create smog by more than 95,000 tons. 
• Public Transportation reduces carbon monoxide (CO) emissions by nearly 745,000 tons annually, equal to nearly 75% of the CO emissions by all U.S. chemical manufacturers. 
• Public Transportation reduces emissions of carbon dioxide, which contributes to global warming, by more than 7.4 million tons a year. 
• For every passenger mile traveled, Public Transportation produces only a fraction of the harmful pollution of automobile traffic: only 5% as much carbon monoxide, less than 8% as many volatile organic compounds and about half as much carbon dioxide and nitrogen oxides. 
• For every passenger mile, Public Transportation is twice as fuel efficient as cars. 
• Public Transportation already saves more than 855 million gallons of gasoline or 45 million barrels of oil a year. The number is equivalent to the energy used to heat, cool and operate one-fourth of all American homes annually, or half the energy used to manufacture all computers and electronic equipment in America annually. 
• If one in 10 Americans used Public Transportation regularly, the U.S. reliance on foreign oil could be cut by more than 40 percent - the amount we import from Saudi Arabia each year.