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More Metro. Less CO₂.
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Metro is the largest provider of public transit in the D.C. region. That means riding with us is the best way to cut down on travel-related carbon emissions in our region.
Riding Metro Means Cleaner Air
People have taken 374,483,641 trips on Metrorail and 170,092,622 trips on Metrobus since July 2018.
That's a distance of about 3,286,720,461 miles. This translates to a reduction of almost 493,914 metric tons of CO₂ compared to traveling by car and is equivalent to:
55,812,203
Gallons of
Gasoline Consumed
56,801
Homes' Energy
Use for One Year
8,149,570
Trees Taking CO₂ Out of
the Environment for 10 years
Data compiled from the U.S. EPA Greenhouse Gas Equivalencies Calculator and SmarTrip data information.