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The following is a list of all light rail systems in the United States. Also included are some of the urban streetcar/trolley systems that provide regular public transit service (operating year-round and at least five days per week), ones with data available from the American Public Transportation Association's (APTA) Ridership Reports.
The following is a list of all light rail systems in North America, ranked by ridership.Daily figures for American and Canadian light rail systems are "average weekday unlinked passenger trips" (where transfers between lines are counted as two separate passenger "boardings" or "trips"), unless otherwise indicated.
Green Line / Blue Line: 1913 15.3 mi (24.6 km) 2 Light rail Aside from line and station renovations in the early 1980s, and the Waterfront extension in 1996, these lines have operated essentially uninterrupted as light rail (interurbans) from their opening. Newark: New Jersey Transit: Newark Light Rail: 1935 6.2 mi (10.0 km) 2 Light rail
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 (UMTA; the precursor to the U.S. Federal Transit Administration) to describe new streetcar transformations which were taking place in Europe and the United States.
It does not include statistics for bus or light rail systems; see: List of United States light rail systems by ridership for light rail systems. All ridership figures represent unlinked passenger trips, so line transfers on multi-line systems register as separate trips. The data is provided by the American Public Transportation Association's ...
Light rail in the United States; List of United States light rail systems by ridership; List of rail transit systems in the United States, which also includes subway/metro and commuter rail systems. In the state-by-state tables below: A diamond (♦) symbol denotes a system that operates or operated in the same area as another independent system.
The following is a list of cities that have current tram/streetcar (including heritage trams/heritage streetcars), or light rail systems as part of their regular public transit systems. [1] In other words, this list only includes systems which operate year-round and provide actual transit service, not ones that are primarily tourist services ...
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 ...