Americans' commuter rail systems ranked by ridership

Why Doesn't The United States Have High-Speed Bullet Trains Like ...

Suburban sprawl vs. Town squares. Most Americans live in suburbs which are dominated by single-family homes sitting on single tracts of land ...

commuter rail – The Antiplanner - The Thoreau Institute

Commuter-rail ridership is down more than 80 percent. So naturally Amtrak and commuter-rail agencies want more money to expand service. Commuter train in Utah.

Fork in the Railroad - Common Sense Institute

FasTracks has completed 78 of the planned 119 miles of rail at the cost of $72 million per mile. In 2014, the system's operating budget was $477 ...

Regional Rail for Metropolitan Boston - TransitMatters

... ridership than the MBTA commuter rail network, on barely half the route-length. It also has the lowest operating costs of all major American commuter rail ...

Commuter Rail Systems in North America - Transit Mobility Program

Commuter Rail Systems in North America. TCRP G-14 “Contracting Commuter Rail Services” is a current research project sponsored by the Transit Cooperative ...

GO Transit: A Case Study in North American Regional Rail

The GO Transit system, serving the Toronto Metropolitan region, is one of the largest and most successful modern commuter rail systems in North America.

Second-best public transit in the Northeast: Montreal vs. Boston vs ...

weekday ridership), Chicago heavy rail definitely overtakes WMATA (899K av. weekday ridership). I think Boston comes very even with WMATA, if ...

COMMUTER RAIL (SUBURBAN RAIL, REGIONAL RAIL) IN THE ...

systems: New York, Chicago, Boston and Philadelphia (Appendix Table B). New York ranks eighth among automotive urban areas in ridership (Figures 2 and 3). 3 ...

These North American Cities Have the Best Public Transit Systems

In North America, New York's transit system ranked first on the Urban Mobility Readiness Index while Los Angeles came in last. Metro systems in ...

Rail News - APTA: U.S. public transit ridership fell nearly 3 percent ...

Nationally, commuter-rail ridership grew at 18 of 29 transit systems. For example, the Regional Transportation District of Denver logged a 64.6 ...

US Public Transit Is in Crisis From Washington to San Francisco

New Jersey Transit, the largest US statewide commuter bus and rail provider, says weekday rail ridership is back to about 80% to 90% of what it ...

Americans Took 10.1 Billion Trips on Public Transportation in 2017

Commuter rail and light rail ridership remained steady, with many public transit systems showing increases. Compared to public transit ridership ...

Metrorail is no longer the second-busiest rapid transit system in the ...

When we compare the ridership per route mile of the 13 heavy rail rapid transit systems in the United States, we find that New York's lead has ...

Why has public transit ridership declined in the United States?

Between 2012 and 2018, bus ridership in the United States declined 15% and rail ridership declined 3%. These losses are widespread and in contrast to trends in ...

Transit Trends - Chicago Metropolitan Agency for Planning

... American Public Transportation. Association Public Transportation Ridership ... CTA rail service hours. Metra service hours. National commuter rail ridership.

American Light Rail Systems by Ridership | Metro Jacksonville

American Light Rail Systems by Ridership · 1. 237,700 - Boston - MBTA Green Line, Ashmont-Mattapan High Speed Line * and ** · 2. 186,200 - San ...

A Demand Elasticity Study of the GO Transit Rail Network

Planners have theorized that transitioning commuter rail systems to regional rail networks will increase ridership, balance mode share, ...

U.S. transit rail system mileage | Statista

In 2021, the commuter rail network constituted the largest length within the transit rail system mileage in the United States, amounted to ...

LTD, MBTA ridership up during FY 24 - Mass Transit

Data provided by Keolis Commuter Services, the operating partner for the MBTA commuter rail system, shows that more than 230,000 passes were ...

With soaring Metro, DC Streetcar, and VRE ridership, Washington ...

After Metro, the next fastest-growing heavy rail system was San Juan, Puerto Rico's, up 43% to 12,000 per day. After that, San Francisco's BART, ...