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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), 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.

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 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
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

References

  1. ^ American Public Transportation Association, Public Transit Ridership Report, First Quarter 2010.
  2. ^ a b c New Jersey Transit, Facts at a Glance, Fiscal Year 2008.
  3. ^ Seattle Transit Blog
  4. ^ Portland Streetcar, "Streetcar Daily Ridership" (graph)
  5. ^ Greater Cleveland Regional Transit Authority, RTA Facts.
  6. ^ Sound Transit, First Quarter 2010 Service Delivery Quarterly Performance Report
  7. ^ 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
  8. ^ MassTransitMag.com » Article » Builders Like Rail Line, but Riders are Sparse
  9. ^ American Public Transportation Association, Public Transit Ridership Report, Second Quarter, 2009.
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