Healthy alternative: Take mass transit

ATLANTA — Want to lose weight and look better? Improve your heart rate, circulation and overall health? Then get out of your car and hop on the bus or train.

That's the message from some transit agencies that are appealing to drivers' health concerns.

"All the new research over the last five years indicates pretty clearly the health benefits of public transportation," says Jason Jordan, director of the Center for Transportation Excellence, a non-profit research and policy clearinghouse. "A lot of people are walking more if they have access to transit."

They're walking from home to the bus stop or train station, inside the station and from the bus stop or train station to their jobs. Among the efforts to spread the word:



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