Most Mid-Hudson Valley residents who are employed travel to and from their jobs by car. Only 4% of employed residents use public transportation as part of their daily commute to work. For most Mid-Hudson Valley residents, public transportation does not rank as highly on the list of priorities as other issues. 21% of people in the region rate public transportation as a community priority with a 10 the highest possible score on the scale.
Public transportation is in the bottom tier of priorities for Mid-Hudson Valley residents. It ranks seventeenth out of nineteen priorities receiving an overall average score of just 6.4. In 2002, it had the same rank with an average rating of 6.1.
Understandably, the issue is more important to commuters who use public transportation to travel to work than it is to those who do not. The need to improve public transportation, as a priority, receives an average score of 7.0 from these residents, and it ranks eleventh out of nineteen priorities for them.
The issue of public transportation also resonates with residents whose annual household incomes are less than $30,000. It is even more important to those whose family income is less than $15,000 a year.
