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... In this way, public transit complements casual carpooling; however, at least one transit agency considers casual carpooling a detriment to its operations. BART began to experience problems caused by casual carpooling during the agency's heyday in the late 1980s.
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... There are more "slugs" -- or casual carpools -- in the region than there are transit riders who use PRTC's express service, according to the public transit agency's manager of planning and quality assurance. Those casual carpools take thousands of people into the core employment areas around the District of Columbia, commuters that PRTC could not accommodate as a result of capacity issues.
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