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Exhibit 6-18 |
Average Annual Growth Rate in Public Funding for Transit |
Exhibit 6-19. Public Funding for Transit by Government Jurisdiction, 1961-1997
Exhibit 6-20. Public Funding for Transit by Government Jurisdiction Selected Years 1956-1997
Of the $17.5 billion in public funding in 1997, $4.7 billion, or 27 percent, came from the Federal government. This represented a slight increase from recent years, though it remains well below the peak of 43 percent reached in the early 1980s (Exhibit 6-21).
Exhibit 6-21. Federal Share of Public Funding for Transit, 1961-1997