List of North American rapid transit systems by ridership

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See also: List of United States rapid transit systems by ridership and List of North American light rail systems by ridership

This is a list of North American rapid transit systems by ridership. These heavy rail or rapid transit systems are also known as metro or subway systems. This list of systems in North America does not include light rail, even when they are integrated with heavy rail. Daily and annual ridership figures are based on "average weekday unlinked passenger trips" (where transfers between lines are counted as two separate passenger "boardings" or "trips"), unless otherwise indicated (e.g., Mexico City and Monterrey, whose figures are the average for all days, not just weekdays). For metro systems in the United States (including Puerto Rico) and Canada, the annual ridership figures for 2014 and average weekday ridership figures for the Fourth Quarter (Q4) of 2014 come from the American Public Transportation Association's (APTA) ridership reports statistics,[1] unless otherwise noted. Ridership figures for Mexico come from Banco de Información Económica's INEGI reports.[2]

System Country City/area
served		 Annual
ridership
(2014)[1][2]		 Avg. daily
weekday
boardings
(Q4 2014)[1][2]		 System
length		 Avg. daily
boardings
per mile
(Q4 2014)		 Year
opened		 Stations Lines
1 New York City Subway  USA New York City 2,758,485,000 9,060,800 232 miles (373 km)[3] 39,055 1904[note 1] 468[4] 24[4]
2 Mexico City Metro  Mexico Mexico City 1,561,613,597[note 2] 4,307,384[note 3] 140.75 miles (226.5 km)[5] 30,603 1969 195[6] 12[6]
3 Montreal Metro  Canada Montreal 357,706,800 1,263,800 43 miles (69 km)[7] 29,390 1966 68 4
4 Toronto rapid transit[note 4]  Canada Toronto 324,738,500 1,093,300 42.4 miles (68.2 km)[8] 25,785 1954[8] 69[8] 4[8]
5 Washington Metro  USA Washington, D.C. 271,160,000 829,200 117 miles (188 km)[9] 7,087 1976[9] 91[9] 6
6 Chicago 'L'  USA Chicago 239,100,200 753,600 102.8 miles (165.4 km)[10] 7,331 1892[10] 145[10] 8[10]
7 Monterrey Metro (Metrorrey)  Mexico Monterrey 177,540,056[note 2] 519,689[note 3] 20 miles (32 km)[11] 24,984 1991[12] 31[13] 2[13]
8 MBTA Subway[note 5]
(Blue, Orange, and Red Lines)		  USA Boston 174,820,200 560,500 38 miles (61 km)[14] 14,750 1901 53[14] 4[14]
9 BART  USA San Francisco
Bay Area		 132,314,200 447,200 104 miles (167 km)[15] 4,300 1972[15] 44[15] 5[16]
10 SkyTrain  Canada Vancouver 117,727,200 390,600 42.6 miles (68.6 km)[17] 9,169 1985 47[17][note 6] 3[17]
11 SEPTA[18][19][note 5]
(Broad Street (Orange),
Market–Frankford (Blue), and Norristown High Speed Lines)		  USA Philadelphia 96,709,400 342,600 36.7 miles (59.1 km)[18][20] 9,335 1907 75[19] 3[19]
12 PATH  USA New York City 73,649,000 250,700 13.8 miles (22.2 km)[21] 18,167 1908 13[22] 5[22]
13 MARTA  USA Atlanta 71,504,600 232,100 48 miles (77 km)[23] 4,876 1979 38[23] 4
14 Panama Metro  Panama Panama City n/a 180,000[24] 8.5 miles (13.7 km)[25] 21,176 2014 12[26] 1[26]
15 Santo Domingo Metro  Dominican Republic Santo Domingo 61,270,054[27] 177,844[27]
[note 3]		 17.0 miles (27.4 km)[28][29] 10,461 2009 30[28][29] 2[28][29]
16 Metro Rail[note 5]
(Purple and Red Lines)		  USA Los Angeles 48,724,700 153,000 17.4 miles (28.0 km)[30] 8,793 1993[30] 16[30] 2[30]
17 Miami Metrorail  USA Miami 21,722,100 74,600 24.9 miles (40.1 km)[31] 3,057 1984 23[31] 2
18 Baltimore Metro Subway[note 5]  USA Baltimore 14,555,100 48,000 15.5 miles (24.9 km)[32] 3,097 1983 14[32] 1[32]
19 Tren Urbano  Puerto Rico (USA) San Juan 10,087,500 33,700 10.7 miles (17.2 km) 3,150 2004 16 1
20 PATCO Speedline  USA Philadelphia 10,007,300 35,300 14.2 miles (22.9 km)[33] 2,486 1936[33] 13[33] 1[33]
21 Staten Island Railway  USA New York City 7,228,600 26,900 14.0 miles (22.5 km)[3] 1,921 1860 22[3] 1[3]
22 RTA Rapid Transit[note 5]
(Red Line)		  USA Cleveland 6,203,200 16,995[note 3] 19 miles (31 km)[34] 894 1955 18[34] 1[34]
For a given population size, Mexican and Canadian cities tend to have higher public transit usage.

Sources:

  • American Public Transportation Association - Transit Ridership Report - Q4 2014.[1]
  • Banco de Información Económica - Instituto Nacional de Estadísitica y Geografía (INEGI)[2] (Note: INEGI only provides monthly figures - figures in table above are for the Q4 2014 monthly average, then divided by 30 days to get the daily average.)

See also

Notes

  1. ↑ The current system incorporates elevated sections built in 1870.
  2. ↑ 2.0 2.1 This Annual Ridership figure for 2014 is obtained by averaging the Average Daily Ridership for the twelve months in 2014, and then multiplying that figure by the number of days in a year.
  3. ↑ 3.0 3.1 3.2 3.3 This is the Average Daily Ridership figure, not an Average Weekday Ridership figure - it is averaged from the Q4 2014 Total Ridership figure for this system.
  4. ↑ Totals represent the sum of the "Heavy Rail (HR)" and "Intermediate Rail (IR)" figures for Toronto from the APTA ridership report – in other words, figures include stations and ridership on Line 3 Scarborough (RT), which APTA considers to be an IR line and which the local transit authority includes in the rapid transit system for mapping and administrative purposes.
  5. ↑ 5.0 5.1 5.2 5.3 5.4 This rapid transit system is integrated with a light rail system; only the parts of the system that are rapid transit/metro, and that are not light rail, are counted in the statistics presented here.
  6. ↑ Counting two transfer stations (Commercial–Broadway Station and Waterfront Station) only once; counting them twice there are 49 stations.

References

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