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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: Newark Light Rail: 1935 6.2 mi (10.0 km) 2 Light rail
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 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.
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.
It is the company's largest light rail contract in the United States to date. [ 6 ] In 2008, construction began on two new extensions: one extension of 5.1 miles (8.2 km) through West Valley City (now part of the Green Line ) and another extension of 10.6 miles (17.1 km) through the southwest portion of the Salt Lake Valley (now part of the Red ...
The following is a list of commuter rail systems in the United States, ranked by ridership. All figures come from the American Public Transportation Association's (APTA) Ridership Reports Statistics for the fourth quarter of 2023, [1] unless otherwise indicated.