List of United States commuter rail systems by ridership
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The following is a list of all commuter rail systems in the United States, ranked by average weekday ridership. All figures come from the American Public Transportation Association's Ridership Reports Statistics[1] for the third quarter of 2011, unless otherwise noted. Dates are given for all figures; the most recent available are used.
| Rank | System | Major cities served | Ridership (average weekday) |
Date | Route miles | Stations | Opened |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Long Island Rail Road | New York | 341,200 | Q3 2011 | 700 | 124 | 1836 |
| 2 | Metra | Chicago | 311,500 | Q3 2011 | 495 | 240 | 1984 |
| 3 | Metro-North Railroad | New York | 289,900 | Q3 2011 | 384 | 120 | 1983 |
| 4 | New Jersey Transit Rail | New York / Philadelphia | 276,459 | FY 2011[2] | 951 | 162 | 1983 |
| 5 | MBTA Commuter Rail | Boston | 133,300 | Q3 2011 | 368 | 133 | 1973 |
| 6 | SEPTA Regional Rail | Philadelphia | 114,500 | Q3 2011 | 289 | 150 | 1983 |
| 7 | Caltrain | San Francisco / San Jose | 44,900 | Q3 2011 | 77 | 32 | 1987 |
| 8 | Metrolink | Los Angeles | 40,300 | Q3 2011 | 512 | 55 | 1992 |
| 9 | MARC Train | Baltimore / Washington, D.C. | 32,000 | Q3 2011 | 187 | 43 | 1984 |
| 10 | Virginia Railway Express | Washington, D.C. | 18,900 | Q3 2011 | 90 | 18 | 1992 |
| 11 | Tri-Rail | Miami | 13,000 | Q3 2011 | 72 | 18 | 1987 |
| 12 | NICTD South Shore Line | Chicago | 13,000 | Q3 2011 | 90 | 20 | 1903 |
| 13 | Sounder Commuter Rail | Seattle / Tacoma | 9,800 | Q3 2011 | 80 | 9 | 2000 |
| 14 | Trinity Railway Express | Dallas / Fort Worth | 8,200 | Q3 2011 | 34 | 10 | 1996 |
| 15 | NCTD Coaster | San Diego | 6,100 | Q3 2011 | 41.1 | 8 | 1995 |
| 16 | UTA FrontRunner | Salt Lake City | 6,000 | Q3 2011 | 44 | 8 | 2008 |
| 17 | New Mexico Rail Runner Express | Albuquerque | 4,500 | Q3 2011 | 97 | 13 | 2006 |
| 18 | Altamont Commuter Express | San Jose | 3,000 | Q3 2011 | 86 | 10 | 1998 |
| 19 | Northstar Line | Minneapolis | 2,500 | Q3 2011 | 40 | 6 | 2009 |
| 20 | Shore Line East | New Haven | 2,200 | Q3 2011 | 59 | 13 | 1990 |
| 21 | Capital MetroRail | Austin | 1,800 | Q3 2011 | 32 | 9 | 2010 |
| 22 | Westside Express Service | Beaverton | 1,600 | Q3 2011 | 15 | 5 | 2010 |
| 23 | Music City Star | Nashville | 1,200 | Q3 2011 | 32 | 6 | 2006 |
[edit] Notes
- ^ "Public Transit Ridership Report, Third Quarter 2011". American Public Transportation Association. http://www.apta.com/resources/statistics/Documents/Ridership/2011-q3-ridership-APTA.pdf..
- ^ "New Jersey Transit facts-at-a-glance". February 2012. http://www.njtransit.com/pdf/FactsAtaGlance.pdf. Retrieved February 15, 2012.
