List of North American rapid transit systems by ridership

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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]

Contents

SystemCountryCity/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		StationsLines
1 New York City Subway United States New York City 2,027,286,0006,593,700248 miles (399 km) [5] 25,2511904 [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] 30,9841969195 [9] 12 [9]
3 Montreal Metro Canada Montreal 303,969,5001,046,30043 miles (69 km) [10] 21,8161966684
4 Toronto subway [note 2] Canada Toronto 302,527,0001,029,00047.8 miles (76.9 km) [11] 20,3051954 [11] 703
5 Washington Metro United States Washington, D.C. Metropolitan Area 136,303,200474,000129 miles (208 km) [12] 3,6831976 [12] 98 [12] 6
6 Chicago 'L' United States Chicago 117,447,000373,800102.8 miles (165.4 km) [13] 3,7801892 [13] 145 [13] 8 [13]
7 Metrorrey Mexico Monterrey 138,709,000 [4] 380,024 [note 3] 25 miles (40 km) [14] 25,6051991 [15] 40 [14] 3 [14]
8 SkyTrain Canada Vancouver 141,339,300446,40049.5 miles (79.6 km)9,030198553 [16] 3 [16]
9 MBTA subway [note 4]
(Blue, Orange, and Red Lines)		United States Boston 85,397,200267,10039.5 miles (63.6 km) [17] 7,187190153 [17] 4 [17]
10 BART United States San Francisco
Bay Area 		48,119,400160,400131.4 miles (211.5 km) [18] 1,2521972 [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 90,240,800329,20036.7 miles (59.1 km) [20] [22] 8,929190775 [21] 3 [21]
12 PATH United States Jersey City, Newark, NJ 90,276,600306,70013.8 miles (22.2 km) [23] 22,464190813 [24] 5 [24]
13 MARTA United States Atlanta 63,998,500–48 miles (77 km) [25] 4,288197938 [25] 4
14 Panama Metro Panama Panama City 91,932,890 [26] 180,000 [27] [ needs update ]22.9 miles (36.9 km) [28] 21,176201431 [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] 10,461200930 [31] [32] 2 [31] [32]
16 Metro Rail [note 4]
(B and D Lines)		United States Los Angeles 41,775,100130,90017.4 miles (28.0 km) [33] 7,9941993 [33] 16 [33] 2 [33]
17 Miami Metrorail United States Miami 13,439,30048,30024.9 miles (40.1 km) [34] 2,723198423 [34] 2
18 PATCO Speedline United States Philadelphia 11,107,50038,40014.2 miles (22.9 km) [35] 2,7321936 [35] 13 [35] 1 [35]
19 Staten Island Railway United States New York City 7,741,00018,50014.0 miles (22.5 km) [5] 2,100186022 [5] 1 [5]
20 Baltimore Metro SubwayLink [note 4] United States Baltimore 7,325,50036,60015.5 miles (24.9 km) [36] 884198314 [36] 1 [36]
21 RTA Rapid Transit [note 4]
(Red Line)		United States Cleveland 5,958,00015,90019 miles (31 km) [37] 1,000195518 [37] 1 [37]
22 Tren Urbano Puerto Rico (United States) San Juan 5,233,90020,30010.7 miles (17.2 km)1,9632004161
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For a given population size, New York, some Mexican and Canadian cities tend to have higher public transit usage. Note: This data goes beyond rapid transit and encompasses all public transport, including modes such as buses. NorthAmericanPublicTransport.png
For a given population size, New York, some Mexican and Canadian cities tend to have higher public transit usage.
Note: This data goes beyond rapid transit and encompasses all public transport, including modes such as buses.

See also

Notes

  1. ↑ The current system incorporates elevated sections built in 1870.
  2. ↑ 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 Toronto Transit Commission includes in the rapid transit system for mapping and administrative purposes.
  3. ↑ This system does not have update data of the avg. daily weekday boardings, this number correspond to the regular average.
  4. 1 2 3 4 5 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.
  5. ↑ 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.

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  16. 1 2 "State of Good Repair". TransLink. March 2013. p. 3. Retrieved 2013-07-23.
  17. 1 2 3 "Ridership and Service Statistics, Fourteenth Edition 2014" (PDF). Massachusetts Bay Transportation Authority. July 2014. pp. 3–4, 6. Archived from the original (pdf) on 2014-09-12. Retrieved 2014-08-31.
  18. 1 2 3 "BART – System Facts". San Francisco Bay Area Rapid Transit District. 2015. Retrieved 2015-04-01.
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  20. 1 2 "SEPTA – Media Guide" (pdf). Southeastern Pennsylvania Transportation Authority. 2013. Retrieved 2017-05-19.
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  34. 1 2 "Miami-Dade Transit – Metrorail". Miami-Dade County. March 28, 2014. Retrieved 2014-09-05.
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