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Revision as of 07:53, 28 June 2010
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), except for Portland Streetcar, whose ridership numbers are not given by this article's primary data source. All figures are average weekday unlinked (i.e. line transfers register as separate trips) passenger 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 (*) are integrated with a heavy rail rapid transit system. Systems marked with an double asterisk (**) are integrated with a commuter rail. Numbers given here represent ridership on light rail lines only; integration into multi-modal transportation systems generally increases ridership.
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MBTA Green Line
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Muni Metro's N Judah line
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LACMTA Gold Line
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SEPTA #13 Line
Rank | System | Largest city served | Daily boardings[1] | Route miles | Daily boardings per mile | As of | Opened | Other Sources |
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1 | MBTA Green Line Ashmont–Mattapan High Speed Line* and ** |
Boston | 231,200 | 25.4 2.6 |
8,257 | Q3 2009 | 1897 | |
2 | Muni Metro and F/Market Line Muni Cable Cars |
San Francisco | 151,300 | 71.5 8.8 |
1,884 | Q3 2009 | 1912 1878 |
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3 | Los Angeles County Metro Rail Blue Line, Green Line, and Gold Line* and ** |
Los Angeles | 143,000 | 61.7 mi (99.3 km) | 2,318 | Q3 2009 | 1990 | |
4 | MAX Light Rail (not including Portland Streetcar)** |
Portland | 119,300 | 53 mi (85 km) | 2,251 | Q3 2009 | 1986 | |
5 | SEPTA Subway-Surface Lines, Suburban Trolley Lines, and Girard Avenue Trolley* |
Philadelphia | 108,000 | 60 mi (97 km) | 1,800 | Q3 2009 | 1906 1859 | |
6 | San Diego Trolley ** | San Diego | 86,100 | 53.5 mi (86.1 km) | 1,609 | Q3 2009 | 1981 | |
7 | Denver RTD, The Ride Light Rail | Denver | 63,100 | 35 mi (56 km) | 1,803 | Q3 2009 | 1994 | |
8 | DART: Red, Green, and Blue lines MATA streetcar ** |
Dallas | 57,700 | 45 3.6 |
1,187 | Q3 2009 | 1996 | |
9 | Sacramento Regional Transit District Light Rail | Sacramento | 54,900 | 36.9 mi (59.4 km) | 1,488 | Q3 2009 | 1987 | |
10 | St. Louis MetroLink | St. Louis | 48,000 | 46 mi (74 km) | 1,043 | Q3 2009 | 1993 | |
11 | UTA TRAX** | Salt Lake City | 43,100 | 19 mi (31 km) | 2,268 | Q3 2009 | 1999 | |
12 | METRO Light Rail (Phoenix) | Phoenix | 40,500 | 20 mi (32 km) | 2,025 | Q3 2009 | 2008 | |
13 | Hudson-Bergen Light Rail* | Jersey City | 40,090 | 27.2 mi (43.8 km) | 1,474 | FY 2008 | 2000 | [2] |
14 | METRORail | Houston | 35,100 | 7.5 mi (12.1 km) | 4,680 | Q3 2009 | 2004 | |
15 | Santa Clara VTA Light Rail ** | San Jose | 29,700 | 42.2 mi (67.9 km) | 704 | Q3 2009 | 1987 | |
16 | Baltimore Light Rail* and ** | Baltimore | 28,800 | 30 mi (48 km) | 960 | Q3 2009 | 1992 | |
17 | Hiawatha Line** | Minneapolis | 27,100 | 12 mi (19 km) | 2,258 | Q3 2009 | 2004 | |
18 | The T | Pittsburgh | 23,500 | 25 mi (40 km) | 940 | Q3 2009 | 1897 | |
19 | Buffalo Metro Rail | Buffalo | 22,100 | 6.4 mi (10.3 km) | 3,453 | Q3 2009 | 1984 | |
20 | Central Link** | Seattle | 21,774 | 15.6 mi (25.1 km) | 1,396 | May 2010 | 2009 | [3] |
21 | Newark Light Rail* | Newark | 20,440 | 9.9 mi (15.9 km) | 2,065 | FY 2008 | 1935 | [2] |
22 | LYNX Rapid Transit Services | Charlotte | 19,200 | 9.6 mi (15.4 km) | 2,000 | Q3 2009 | 2007 | |
23 | RTA Streetcars | New Orleans | 15,000 | 21.5 mi (34.6 km) | 698 | Q3 2009 | 1835 | |
24 | Portland Streetcar | Portland | 11,914 | 3.9 mi (6.3 km) | 3,055 | Winter 2009-2010 |
2001 | [4] |
25 | The Rapid Blue and Green Lines* | Cleveland | 8,900 | 15 mi (24 km) | 593 | Q1 2008 | 1913 | [5] |
26 | River Line* | Trenton/Camden | 8,201 | 34 mi (55 km) | 241 | FY 2008 | 2004 | [2] |
27 | Sprinter ** | Oceanside | 6,900 | 22 mi (35 km) | 314 | Q3 2009 | 2008 | |
28 | Tacoma Link** | Tacoma | 2,930 | 1.6 mi (2.6 km) | 1,831 | Q1 2010 | 2003 | [6] |
29 | Memphis RTA Trolley | Memphis | 2,500 | 6.7 mi (10.8 km) | 373 | Q3 2009 | 1993 | |
30 | South Lake Union Streetcar | Seattle | 1,400 | 1.3 mi (2.1 km) | 1,077 | Q3 2009 | 2007 | |
31 | TECO Line Streetcar System | Tampa | 1,000 | 2.3 mi (3.7 km) | 435 | Q3 2009 | 2002 | |
32 | River Rail Streetcar | Little Rock | 340 | 2.5 mi (4.0 km) | 136 | 2005 | 2004 | [7][8] |
33 | Kenosha Transit | Kenosha | 300 | 2 mi (3.2 km) | 150 | Q2 2009 | 2000 | [9] |
34 | Galveston Island Trolley† | Galveston | 0 | 5.2 mi (8.4 km) | 0 | Q3 2009 | 1988 |
(*) Systems marked with an asterisk are integrated with a heavy rail rapid transit system; the above numbers represent ridership on light rail lines only.
(**) Systems marked with a double asterisk are integrated with 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.
See also
- List of light-rail transit systems
- Light rail
- Light rail in North America
- List of rail transit systems in the United States
- Public transportation
- List of United States commuter rail systems by ridership
- List of United States local bus agencies by ridership
- List of United States rapid transit systems by ridership
References
- ^ American Public Transportation Association, Public Transit Ridership Report, First Quarter 2010.
- ^ a b c New Jersey Transit, Facts at a Glance, Fiscal Year 2008.
- ^ Seattle Transit Blog
- ^ Portland Streetcar, "Streetcar Daily Ridership" (graph)
- ^ Greater Cleveland Regional Transit Authority, RTA Facts.
- ^ Sound Transit, First Quarter 2010 Service Delivery Quarterly Performance Report
- ^ Fox, Thomas; Lancaster, John (March 2006), "Planning for Introduction of Modern Light Rail Transit into a Vintage Trolley System" (PDF), American Public Transportation Association Rail Conference, New York, New York: APTA | accessdate = 2008-03-18
- ^ MassTransitMag.com » Article » Builders Like Rail Line, but Riders are Sparse
- ^ American Public Transportation Association, Public Transit Ridership Report, Second Quarter, 2009.