Record numbers of Americans have used public transportation according to a new survey completed by The American Public Transportation Association. The increase in public transportation use was pinned on the increase of gas prices earlier in the year, but now, even as gas prices decreased to the lowest levels since 2004, the APTA reports the biggest increase in highest transit ridership in the past 25 years. The cost of gas can be looked at as a catalyst that caused Americans to look to public transportation, but the environmental impacts and savings associated with …