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The past 10 years' fatal car crashes in the United States have been mapped according to the percentage of them involving one or more drunk drivers.

Cities in clusters without deep penetration of mass transit, like ours, show upwards of 80% of traffic fatalities involve alcohol.

Any city, whether in a cluster or not, that has a greater penetration of mass transit serving it, shows a marked drop in the percent of fatal crashes involving alcohol.

Increasing mass transit here should spare hundreds of lives from ending or being permanently changed through serious crashes each year - and well over 100 Million dollars in minimum annual costs to the Phoenix economy. [each death costs $1.5 Million, each injury $33,000 in costs calculated by ADOT.]

Our urban crash rate is higher than the national average because our mass transit usability if lower than peer metropolitan areas.

That pays for a lot of mass transit!