Choice C is the best answer. In the last paragraph, the author explains the trend that people who became adults around the end of the twentieth cen-tury are more willing to use public transportation than people from older generations. The author notes, "If you credit the demographers, this transit trend has legs" (lines 58-59"If...adulthood"). In this context, "credit" means to believe the demographers' claims about the trend.Choices A, B, and D are incorrect because in this context, "credit" does not mean endow, attribute, or honor.