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System Country City/area served Annual ridership (2019) [1] [2] Avg. daily weekday boardings (Q4 2019) [1] [2] System length Avg. daily boardings per mile (Q4 2019) Year opened Stations Lines Date 1 New York City Subway USA New York City 2,723,960,100 9,117,400 248 miles (399 km) [4] 36,764 1904 [note 1] 472 [5] 24 [5] 2 Mexico City Metro ...
Trocaire was founded in 1958 by the Sisters of Mercy as Sancta Maria College to train women of the order. In 1965 it admitted laywomen and in 1972 enrolled male students. In 1967 the college was renamed Trocaire College. [3] The word Trócaire means Mercy in the Irish language. This is an homage to the religious order which founded the college ...
Transportation in North America is performed through a varied transportation system, whose quality ranges from being on par with a high-quality European motorway to an unpaved gravelled back road that can extend hundreds of miles. There is also an extensive transcontinental freight rail network, but passenger railway ridership is lower than in ...
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.
The Anglo-Argentine Tramways Company opened Latin America's first underground tram system, Subte Line A, in 1913. The original route was underground and at street level until 1926, and pantograph cars—built by La Brugeoise in Belgium—had low doors at the ends (for boarding from the street) and high doors in the middle (for boarding from a ...
Business History Review 1975 49(1): 37–59. in JSTOR; White, Richard. Railroaded: The Transcontinentals and the Making of Modern America (2011) excerpt and text search; Wolmar, Christian. The Great Railroad Revolution: The History of Trains in America (2012), survey to 2012; emphasis on 19th century; 448pp excerpt and text search
Here's how your income measures up in the US's economic class system We adhere to strict standards of editorial integrity to help you make decisions with confidence. Some or all links contained ...
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.