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. For metro systems in the United States (including Puerto Rico) and Canada, the annual ridership figures for 2019 and average weekday ridership figures for the Fourth Quarter (Q4) of 2019 come from the American Public Transportation Association's (APTA) ridership reports statistics, [1] unless otherwise noted. Ridership figures for Mexico come from the National Institute of Geography and Statistics (INEGI), specifically the Economy and Productive Sectors - Passenger Transit information. [2] Ridership figures for the Dominican Republic come from the Directorate of Operations Santo Domingo Metro report for the year 2013. [3]
System | Country | City/area served | Annual ridership (2022) [1] [4] | Avg. daily weekday boardings (Q3 2023) [1] [4] | System length | Avg. daily boardings per mile (Q3 2023) | Year opened | Stations | Lines | |
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1 | New York City Subway | United States | New York City | 2,027,286,000 | 6,593,700 | 248 miles (399 km) [5] | 25,251 | 1904 [note 1] | 472 [6] | 24 [6] |
2 | Mexico City Metro | Mexico | Mexico City | 1,115,300,000 [4] | 2,397,892 [7] | 140.75 miles (226.5 km) [8] | 30,984 | 1969 | 195 [9] | 12 [9] |
3 | Montreal Metro | Canada | Montreal | 303,969,500 | 1,046,300 | 43 miles (69 km) [10] | 21,816 | 1966 | 68 | 4 |
4 | Toronto subway [note 2] | Canada | Toronto | 302,527,000 | 1,029,000 | 47.8 miles (76.9 km) [11] | 20,305 | 1954 [11] | 70 | 3 |
5 | Washington Metro | United States | Washington, D.C. Metropolitan Area | 136,303,200 | 474,000 | 129 miles (208 km) [12] | 3,683 | 1976 [12] | 98 [12] | 6 |
6 | Chicago 'L' | United States | Chicago | 117,447,000 | 373,800 | 102.8 miles (165.4 km) [13] | 3,780 | 1892 [13] | 145 [13] | 8 [13] |
7 | Metrorrey | Mexico | Monterrey | 138,709,000 [4] | 380,024 [note 3] | 25 miles (40 km) [14] | 25,605 | 1991 [15] | 40 [14] | 3 [14] |
8 | SkyTrain | Canada | Vancouver | 141,339,300 | 446,400 | 49.5 miles (79.6 km) | 9,030 | 1985 | 53 [16] | 3 [16] |
9 | MBTA subway [note 4] (Blue, Orange, and Red Lines) | United States | Boston | 85,397,200 | 267,100 | 39.5 miles (63.6 km) [17] | 7,187 | 1901 | 53 [17] | 4 [17] |
10 | BART | United States | San Francisco Bay Area | 48,119,400 | 160,400 | 131.4 miles (211.5 km) [18] | 1,252 | 1972 [18] | 48 [18] | 6 [19] |
11 | SEPTA Metro [20] [21] [note 4] (Broad Street (Orange), Market–Frankford (Blue), and Norristown High Speed Lines) | United States | Philadelphia | 90,240,800 | 329,200 | 36.7 miles (59.1 km) [20] [22] | 8,929 | 1907 | 75 [21] | 3 [21] |
12 | PATH | United States | Jersey City, Newark, NJ | 90,276,600 | 306,700 | 13.8 miles (22.2 km) [23] | 22,464 | 1908 | 13 [24] | 5 [24] |
13 | MARTA | United States | Atlanta | 63,998,500 | – | 48 miles (77 km) [25] | 4,288 | 1979 | 38 [25] | 4 |
14 | Panama Metro | Panama | Panama City | 91,932,890 [26] | 180,000 [27] [ needs update ] | 22.9 miles (36.9 km) [28] | 21,176 | 2014 | 31 [29] | 2 [30] |
15 | Santo Domingo Metro | Dominican Republic | Santo Domingo | 61,270,054 [3] [ needs update ] | 177,844 [3] [note 5] [ needs update ] | 17.0 miles (27.4 km) [31] [32] | 10,461 | 2009 | 30 [31] [32] | 2 [31] [32] |
16 | Metro Rail [note 4] (B and D Lines) | United States | Los Angeles | 41,775,100 | 130,900 | 17.4 miles (28.0 km) [33] | 7,994 | 1993 [33] | 16 [33] | 2 [33] |
17 | Miami Metrorail | United States | Miami | 13,439,300 | 48,300 | 24.9 miles (40.1 km) [34] | 2,723 | 1984 | 23 [34] | 2 |
18 | PATCO Speedline | United States | Philadelphia | 11,107,500 | 38,400 | 14.2 miles (22.9 km) [35] | 2,732 | 1936 [35] | 13 [35] | 1 [35] |
19 | Staten Island Railway | United States | New York City | 7,741,000 | 18,500 | 14.0 miles (22.5 km) [5] | 2,100 | 1860 | 22 [5] | 1 [5] |
20 | Baltimore Metro SubwayLink [note 4] | United States | Baltimore | 7,325,500 | 36,600 | 15.5 miles (24.9 km) [36] | 884 | 1983 | 14 [36] | 1 [36] |
21 | RTA Rapid Transit [note 4] (Red Line) | United States | Cleveland | 5,958,000 | 15,900 | 19 miles (31 km) [37] | 1,000 | 1955 | 18 [37] | 1 [37] |
22 | Tren Urbano | Puerto Rico (United States) | San Juan | 5,233,900 | 20,300 | 10.7 miles (17.2 km) | 1,963 | 2004 | 16 | 1 |
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The Norristown High Speed Line is a 13.4-mile (21.6 km) interurban light rapid transit line operated by SEPTA, running between the 69th Street Transportation Center in Upper Darby and the Norristown Transportation Center in Norristown, Pennsylvania. Originally the Philadelphia and Western Railroad line, the line runs entirely on its own right-of-way. By 2020, the Norristown High Speed Line had an average weekday ridership approaching 11,000 passengers.
TRAX is a light rail system in the Salt Lake Valley of Utah, in the United States, serving Salt Lake City and many of its suburbs throughout Salt Lake County. The official name of Transit Express is rarely, if ever, used. The system is operated by the Utah Transit Authority (UTA). All TRAX trains are electric, receiving power from overhead wires.
Buenavista is a station on the Mexico City Metro, in the Colonia Buenavista neighborhood of the Cuauhtémoc borough. It is the southwestern terminal station of Line B. It also offers connections to the Insurgentes Metrobús bus rapid transit line. In 2019, the station had an average ridership of 66,804 passengers per day, making it the tenth busiest station in the network.
Autobuses del Norte metro station is a Mexico City Metro station in Gustavo A. Madero, Mexico City. It is an at-grade station with two side platforms, served by Line 5, between Instituto del Petróleo and La Raza stations. Autobuses del Norte station serves the colonias (neighborhoods) of Ampliación Panamericana and Capultitlan. The station's pictogram features the front of an intercity bus, and its name is on account of its proximity to Mexico City's Northern Bus Terminal. Autobuses del Norte metro station was opened on 30 August 1982, on the first day of the Politécnico–Pantitlán service. The station is partially accessible. In 2019, the station had an average daily ridership of 22,685 passengers, making it the 68th busiest station in the network and the third busiest of the line.
Metrorrey, officially Sistema de Transporte Colectivo Metrorrey, is a rapid transit system that serves the metropolitan area of Monterrey. It is operated by the Sistema de Transporte Colectivo Metrorrey, which is part of the decentralized public administration of Nuevo León. In 2022, it was the sixth largest metro system in North America by ridership.
Light rail is a commonly used mode of public transit in North America. The term light rail was coined in 1972 by the Urban Mass Transportation Administration to describe new streetcar transformations which were taking place in Europe and the United States. The Germans used the term Stadtbahn, which is the predecessor to North American light rail, to describe the concept, and many in UMTA wanted to adopt the direct translation, which is city rail. However, in its reports, UMTA finally adopted the term light rail instead.
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