The national average of $3.98 a gallon on gas prices is making millions of Americans to leave their cars at home and turn to mass transit. This is long overdue.

Recent reports shows that ridership have increased 3% on the first quarter of the year. Transit authorities are boosting their buses route. Light rail transit is also up around 15% on major cities such as Minneapolis, St. Louis and Baltimore, and the same happens with commuter rail, which only in Seattle had an enormous increase of 27,9% in the 1st Quarter of the year.

The problem is that the high gas prices are also affecting the public transportation companies too and the price of the tickets are expected to rise.