List of United States light rail systems by ridership

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The following is a list of all light rail systems in the United States, ranked by ridership. Also included are those urban streetcar (tram) systems that are providing regular public transit service (operating year-round and at least five days/week. All figures are average weekday unlinked passenger trips (i.e. line transfers register as separate trips) and come from the American Public Transit Association's Ridership Reports Statistics, unless otherwise noted. Dates are given for all figures; the most recent available are used. Those systems marked with an asterisk (*) offer connections to a heavy rail rapid transit system. Systems marked with a double asterisk (**) have available connections to a commuter rail. Numbers given here represent ridership on light rail lines only; integration into multi-modal transportation systems generally increases ridership.

Rank System Largest city served Daily boardings[1] Route miles Daily boardings per mile As of Opened Other
Sources
1 MBTA Green Line
Ashmont–Mattapan High Speed Line* and **		 Boston 232,000 25.4 mi (40.9 km)
2.6 mi (4.2 km)		 8,286 Q3 2011 1897
2 Muni Metro and
F Market Line
Muni Cable Cars* and **		 San Francisco 170,900 36.8 mi (59.2 km)
8.8 mi (14.2 km)		 3,748 Q3 2011 1912
1878
3 Los Angeles County Metro Rail Blue Line, Green Line and Gold Line* and ** Los Angeles 169,800 61.7 mi (99.3 km) 2,752 Q3 2011 1990
4 MAX Light Rail
(not including Portland Streetcar)**		 Portland 135,000 53 mi (85 km) 2,547 Q3 2011 1986
5 San Diego Trolley ** San Diego 133,400 53.5 mi (86.1 km) 2,493 Q3 2011 1981
6 SEPTA Subway-Surface Lines,
Suburban Trolley Lines,
and Girard Avenue Trolley* and **		 Philadelphia 97,700 60 mi (97 km) 1,628 Q3 2011 1906
1859
7 DART: Red, Green,
and Blue lines
MATA streetcar **		 Dallas 75,400 72 mi (116 km)
3.6 mi (5.8 km)		 997 Q3 2011 1996
8 Denver RTD, The Ride Light Rail Denver 66,900 35 mi (56 km) 1,911 Q3 2011 1994
9 UTA TRAX** Salt Lake City 55,500 35.3 mi (56.8 km) 1,572 Q3 2011 1999
10 MetroLink St. Louis 53,200 46 mi (74 km) 1,157 Q3 2011 1993
11 Sacramento Regional Transit District Light Rail Sacramento 45,300 36.9 mi (59.4 km) 1,228 Q3 2011 1987
12 Hudson-Bergen Light Rail* and ** Jersey City 40,975 27.2 mi (43.8 km) 1,506 FY 2011 2000 [2]
13 METRO Light Rail (Phoenix) Phoenix 40,600 20 mi (32 km) 2,030 Q3 2011 2008
14 METRORail Houston 36,600 7.5 mi (12.1 km) 4,880 Q3 2011 2004
15 Hiawatha Line** Minneapolis 35,100 12 mi (19 km) 2,925 Q3 2011 2004
16 Santa Clara VTA Light Rail ** San Jose 33,400 42.2 mi (67.9 km) 791 Q3 2011 1987
17 Baltimore Light Rail* and ** Baltimore 32,400 30 mi (48 km) 1,080 Q3 2011 1992
18 Central Link** Seattle 27,100 15.6 mi (25.1 km) 1,737 Q2 2011 2009
19 The T Pittsburgh 24,200 25 mi (40 km) 968 Q3 2011 1897
20 Buffalo Metro Rail Buffalo 22,200 6.4 mi (10.3 km) 3,469 Q3 2011 1984
21 Newark Light Rail* and ** Newark 18,807 9.9 mi (15.9 km) 1,900 FY 2011 1935 [2]
22 RTA Streetcars New Orleans 17,500 21.5 mi (34.6 km) 814 Q3 2011 1835
23 LYNX Rapid Transit Services Charlotte 15,100 9.6 mi (15.4 km) 1,573 Q3 2011 2007
24 Portland Streetcar Portland 12,131 3.9 mi (6.3 km) 3,111 Spring 2011 2001 [3]
25 The Rapid Blue and Green Lines* Cleveland 8,900 15 mi (24 km) 593 Q1 2008 1913 [4]
26 River Line* and ** Trenton/Camden 8,762 34 mi (55 km) 258 FY 2011 2004 [2]
27 Sprinter ** Oceanside 8,100 22 mi (35 km) 368 Q3 2011 2008
28 Tide Light Rail Norfolk 5,100 7.4 mi (11.9 km) 689 Q3 2011 2011
29 Memphis RTA Trolley Memphis 3,900 6.7 mi (10.8 km) 582 Q3 2011 1993
30 Tacoma Link** Tacoma 3,053 1.6 mi (2.6 km) 1,908 Q4 2010 2003 [5]
31 South Lake Union Streetcar Seattle 2,800 1.3 mi (2.1 km) 2,154 Q3 2011 2007
32 TECO Line Streetcar System Tampa 800 2.3 mi (3.7 km) 348 Q3 2011 2002
33 River Rail Streetcar Little Rock 340 2.5 mi (4.0 km) 136 2005 2004 [6][7]
34 Kenosha Transit Kenosha 300 2 mi (3.2 km) 150 Q2 2009 2000 [8]
35 Galveston Island Trolley† Galveston 0 5.2 mi (8.4 km) 0 Q3 2011 1988

(*) Systems marked with an asterisk offer connections to a heavy rail rapid transit system; the above numbers represent ridership on light rail lines only.
(**) Systems marked with a double asterisk have available connections to a commuter rail system; the above numbers represent ridership on light rail lines only.
(†) Galveston's system is currently shut down due to damage from Hurricane Ike.

[edit] See also

[edit] References

  1. ^ American Public Transportation Association, [1], Third Quarter 2011.
  2. ^ a b c New Jersey Transit, Facts at a Glance, Fiscal Year 2011.
  3. ^ Portland Streetcar, "Ridership Numbers" (PDF)
  4. ^ Greater Cleveland Regional Transit Authority, RTA Facts.
  5. ^ Sound Transit, First Quarter 2010 Service Delivery Quarterly Performance Report
  6. ^ Fox, Thomas; Lancaster, John (March 2006), "Planning for Introduction of Modern Light Rail Transit into a Vintage Trolley System", American Public Transportation Association Rail Conference, New York, New York: APTA, http://www.matatransit.com/dotnetnuke/Portals/0/regionalrail/PlanningForLightRailTransitInAVintageTrolleySystem2006.pdf  | accessdate = 2008-03-18
  7. ^ MassTransitMag.com » Article » Builders Like Rail Line, but Riders are Sparse
  8. ^ American Public Transportation Association, Public Transit Ridership Report, Second Quarter, 2009.
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