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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 405,092,221 trips on Metrorail and 178,229,497 trips on Metrobus since July 2018.
That's a distance of about 3,480,793,213 miles. This translates to a reduction of almost 572,319 metric tons of CO₂ compared to traveling by car and is equivalent to:
64,672,012
Gallons of
Gasoline Consumed
65,817
Homes' Energy
Use for One Year
9,443,259
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.