List of United States rapid transit systems by ridership

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The following is a list of all heavy rail rapid transit systems in the United States, ranked by ridership. All figures are average weekday unlinked passenger trips (i.e. line transfers on multiline systems register as separate trips). The data is provided by the American Public Transit Association's Ridership Reports Statistics for the third quarter of 2009, unless otherwise noted.[1] Dates are provided for all figures and the most recent data is used.

Rank System Largest city served Daily ridership Route length Daily ridership per mile As of Opened Stations Lines
1 New York City Subway New York City 7,430,400 229 mi (369 km) 32,447 Q3 2009 1904 468 26
2 WMATA Metrorail Washington, D.C. 998,000 106.3 mi (171.1 km) 9,389 Q3 2009 1976 86 5
3 CTA 'L' Chicago 676,000 107.5 mi (173.0 km) 6,288 Q3 2009 1893 144 8
4 MBTA (or "The T") Red, Orange, and Blue Lines* Boston 479,300 38 mi (61 km) 12,613 Q3 2009 1897 51 3
5 BART* San Francisco 354,800 104 mi (167 km) 3,412 Q3 2009 1972 43 5
6 SEPTA Market-Frankford and Broad Street Lines* Philadelphia 289,300 25 mi (40 km) 11,572 Q3 2009 1907 50 2
7 MARTA Atlanta 259,900 47.6 mi (76.6 km) 5,460 Q3 2009 1979 38 4
8 PATH New York City 242,900 13.8 mi (22.2 km) 17,601 Q3 2009 1908 13 4
9 Los Angeles County Metro Rail Red and Purple Lines* Los Angeles 156,900 17.4 mi (28.0 km) 9,017 Q3 2009 1993 16 2
10 Metrorail Miami 62,100 22 mi (35 km) 2,823 Q3 2009 1984 22 1
11 Baltimore Metro Subway*a[›] Baltimore 52,900 15.5 mi (24.9 km) 3,413 Q3 2009 1983 14 1
12 PATCO Speedline Philadelphia 34,800 14.2 mi (22.9 km) 2,451 Q3 2009 1936 13 1
13 Tren Urbano San Juan 31,900 10.7 mi (17.2 km) 2,981 Q2 2009[2] 2004 16 1
14 RTA Rapid Transit Red Line* Cleveland 18,600 19 mi (31 km) 979 Q2 2008 1955 18 1
15 Staten Island Railway New York City 13,500 14 mi (23 km) 964 Q3 2009 1860 22 1
16 Detroit People Mover Detroit 6,100 2.9 mi (4.7 km) 2,103 Q3 2009 1987 13 1

Those systems marked with an asterisk (*) are integrated with a light rail system; only the parts of the systems that are not light rail are counted in the statistics presented here.

  • ^ a: A direct transfer between the the light rail and heavy rail systems is not available.

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[edit] References

  1. ^ American Public Transportation Association, Public Transit Ridership Report, Third Quarter 2009.
  2. ^ American Public Transportation Association, Public Transit Ridership Report, Second Quarter 2009.
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