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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), 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.

MBTA Green Line

Muni Metro's N Judah line

LACMTA Gold Line

SEPTA #13 Line
Rank System Largest city served Daily boardings[1] Route miles Daily boardings per mile As of Opened Sources
1 MBTA Green Line
Ashmont–Mattapan High Speed Line* and **		 Boston 237,700 25.4
2.6		 8,489 Q3 2009 1897 [2]
2 Muni Metro* and ** and F/Market Line*
Muni Cable Cars		 San Francisco 186,200 71.5
8.8		 2,139 Q3 2009 1912
1878		 [3]
3 Los Angeles County Metro Rail Blue, Green, and Gold lines* and ** Los Angeles 142,100 61.7 mi (99.3 km) 2,303 Q3 2009 1990 [4]
4 MAX Light Rail
(not including Portland Streetcar)**		 Portland 112,400 53 mi (85 km) 2,121 Q3 2009 1986 [5]
5 SEPTA Subway-Surface Lines, Suburban Trolley Lines, and Girard Avenue Trolley* Philadelphia 94,800 60 mi (97 km) 1,580 Q3 2009 1906 1859 [6]
6 San Diego Trolley ** San Diego 93,100 53.5 mi (86.1 km) 1,740 Q3 2009 1981 [7]
7 DART: Red, Green, and Blue lines
MATA streetcar **		 Dallas 63,200 45
3.6		 1,300 Q3 2009 1996 [8][9]
8 Denver RTD, The Ride Light Rail Denver 61,800 35 mi (56 km) 1,766 Q3 2009 1994 [10]
9 St. Louis MetroLink St. Louis 57,600 46 mi (74 km) 1,252 Q3 2009 1993 [11]
10 Sacramento Regional Transit District Light Rail Sacramento 56,800 36.9 mi (59.4 km) 1,539 Q3 2009 1987 [12]
11 UTA TRAX** Salt Lake City 45,200 19 mi (31 km) 2,379 Q3 2009 1999 [13]
12 Hudson-Bergen Light Rail* Jersey City 38,200 27.2 mi (43.8 km) 1,404 Q1 2008 2000 [14][15]
13 Baltimore Light Rail* and ** Baltimore 34,600 30 mi (48 km) 1,153 Q3 2009 1992 [16]
14 METRO Light Rail (Phoenix) Phoenix 33,500 20 mi (32 km) 1,675 Q3 2009 2008 [17]
15 Santa Clara VTA Light Rail ** San Jose 33,200 42.2 mi (67.9 km) 787 Q3 2009 1987 [18][19]
16 METRORail Houston 31,100 7.5 mi (12.1 km) 4,147 Q3 2009 2004 [20]
17 Hiawatha Line** Minneapolis 32,300 12 mi (19 km) 2,692 Q3 2009 2004 [21]
18 The T Pittsburgh 25,200 25 mi (40 km) 1,008 Q3 2009 1897 [22]
19 Buffalo Metro Rail Buffalo 22,300 6.4 mi (10.3 km) 3,484 Q3 2009 1984 [23]
20 LYNX Rapid Transit Services Charlotte 20,000 9.6 mi (15.4 km) 2,083 Q3 2009 2007 [24]
21 Newark Light Rail* Newark 19,050 9.9 mi (15.9 km) 1,924 Q1 2008 1935 [14][15]
22 Link Light Rail** Seattle 14,852 13.9 mi (22.4 km) 1,068 September 2009 2009 [25]
23 RTA Streetcars New Orleans 10,700 21.5 mi (34.6 km) 498 Q3 2009 1835 [26][27]
24 The Rapid Blue and Green Lines* Cleveland 8,900 15 mi (24 km) 593 Q1 2008 1913 [28]
25 River Line* Trenton/Camden 7,900 34 mi (55 km) 232 Q1 2008 2004 [14][15]
26 Sprinter ** Oceanside 7,200 22 mi (35 km) 327 Q3 2009 2008 [29]
27 Memphis RTA Trolley Memphis 4,100 6.7 mi (10.8 km) 612 Q3 2009 1993 [30]
28 Tacoma Link** Tacoma 3,200 1.6 mi (2.6 km) 2,000 Q2 2009 2003 [31]
29 South Lake Union Streetcar Seattle 1,700 1.3 mi (2.1 km) 1,308 Q3 2009 2007 [32]
30 TECO Line Streetcar System Tampa 700 2.3 mi (3.7 km) 304 Q3 2009 2002 [33]
31 River Rail Streetcar Little Rock 340 2.5 mi (4.0 km) 136 2005 2004 [33][34]
32 Kenosha Transit Kenosha 200 2 mi (3.2 km) 100 Q2 2009 2000 [35]
33 Galveston Island Trolley† Galveston 0 5.2 mi (8.4 km) 0 Q3 2009 1988 [36]

(*) Systems marked with an asterisk are integrated with a heavy rail rapid transit 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, Third Quarter, 2009.
  2. ^ Boston Metropolitan Planning Organization, Transportation System Performance, The MBTA System: Quick Facts, 2003.
  3. ^ San Francisco Municipal Railway, Short Range Transit Plan, Chapter 8: Infrastructure Program, December 6, 2005.
  4. ^ Los Angeles County Metropolitan Transit Authority, Facts at a Glance, June 19, 2007.
  5. ^ Tri-Met, Facts about Tri-Met MAX, May 2009.
  6. ^ SEPTA, SEPTA Operating Facts, Fiscal Year 2006.
  7. ^ Metropolitan Transit System, Fact Sheet, May 2007.
  8. ^ Dallas Area Rapid Transit, DART Rail Facts
  9. ^ American Public Transportation Association, APTA Streetcar and Heritage Trolley Site, Dallas Overview.
  10. ^ Regional Transit District, RTD Facts, February, 2006; Regional Transit District, About Southeast Light Rail, 2007.
  11. ^ St. Louis Metro, Inside Metrolink, 2007.
  12. ^ Sacramento Regional Transit District, RT at a Glance.
  13. ^ Schneider, Keith. "A Rail Line Drives Development in Utah", New York Times, April 22, 2007.
  14. ^ a b c New York Metropolitan Transportation Council, Travel Patterns in the Metropolitan Area, Third Quarter, 2007. The APTA combines statistics for all New Jersey Transit light rail operations, which includes the Hudson-Bergen Light Rail, the Newark Light Rail, and the River Line.
  15. ^ a b c New Jersey Transit, Facts at a Glance, Fiscal Year 2006.
  16. ^ Roads to the Future: Baltimore Central Light Rail Line
  17. ^ [1]
  18. ^ "About VTA". Santa Clara Valley Transportation Authority. http://www.vta.org/inside/about/. Retrieved 2008-12-27. 
  19. ^ "VTA Ridership Trend is Up". Santa Clara Valley Transportation Authority. 2008-12-19. http://www.vta.org/news/show/nr12-08. Retrieved 2008-12-27. 
  20. ^ News: News Releases
  21. ^ Metro Transit, Facts about trains and construction, 2007.
  22. ^ Port Authority of Allegheny County, T Quick Facts.
  23. ^ NFTA-Metro, Metro Rail Facts, 2004.
  24. ^ American Public Transportation Association
  25. ^ Seattle Times
  26. ^ [2] Saint Charles Line
  27. ^ [3]Canal and Riverfront line
  28. ^ Greater Cleveland Regional Transit Authority, RTA Facts.
  29. ^ California Green Solutions
  30. ^ 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
  31. ^ Sound Transit, Light Rail Fares
  32. ^ Seattle Streetcar, About the Streetcar
  33. ^ a b American Public Transportation Association, APTA Streetcar and Heritage Trolley Site, Overview.
  34. ^ MassTransitMag.com » Article » Builders Like Rail Line, but Riders are Sparse
  35. ^ American Public Transportation Association, Public Transit Ridership Report, Second Quarter, 2009.
  36. ^ American Public Transportation Association, APTA Streetcar and Heritage Trolley Site - Galveston Overview,

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