User:Jfruh/Sandbox/List of United States Light Rail systems by ridership

The following is a list of all light rail systems in the United States, ranked by ridership. All figures are average weekday unlinked passenger trips, unless otherwise noted, and come from the American Public Transit Association's Ridership Reports Statistics^[1], unless otherwise noted. Dates are given for all figures; the most recent available are used. Those systems marked with an asterisk (*) are integrated with a heavy rail rapid transit system.

Rank	System	Community served	Ridership	Date
1	MBTA T Green line*	Boston	200,400	Second quarter of 2006
2	Muni Metro, cable car, and F Market*	San Francisco	170,600	Second quarter of 2006
3	Los Angeles County Metro Rail Blue, Green, and Gold lines*	Los Angeles	137,700	Second quarter of 2006
4	Metropolitan Area Express and Portland Streetcar	Portland	104,300	Second quarter of 2006
5	San Diego Trolley	San Diego	100,900	Second quarter of 2006
6	SEPTA Subway-Surface Lines, Suburban Trolley Lines, and Girard Avenue Trolley*	Philadelphia	68,600	Second quarter of 2006
7	DART Light Rail	Dallas	62,400	Second quarter of 2006
8	Metrolink	St. Louis	58,700	Second quarter of 2006
9	UTA TRAX	Salt Lake City	53,400	Fourth quarter of 2005
10	Sacramento Regional Transit District Light Rail	Sacramento	51,100	First quarter of 2006
11	METRORail	Houston	37,800	Second quarter of 2006
12	Denver Light Rail	Denver	30,800	Second quarter of 2006
13	Santa Clara Valley Transportation Authority Light Rail	San Jose	30,500	Second quarter of 2006
14	Hiawatha Line	Minneapolis, Minnesota	28,800	Second quarter of 2006
15	Hudson-Bergen Light Rail*	Hudson County, New Jersey	27,000	March 2006^[2]^[3]
16	The T	Pittsburgh	26,000	Second quarter of 2006
17	Streetcars in New Orleans	New Orleans	25,240	July 2005^[4]
18	Newark Light Rail*	Newark	18,450	August 2006^[5]^[3]
19	Buffalo Metro Rail	Buffalo	18,000	Second quarter of 2006
20	Baltimore Light Rail*	Baltimore	18,000	First quarter of 2005^[6]
21	The Rapid Blue and Green Lines	Cleveland	9,700	Second quarter of 2006
22	River Line	Southwestern New Jersey	6,900^{[citation needed]}	^{[citation needed]} ^[3]
23	Tacoma Link	Tacoma, Washington	3,000^{[citation needed]}	^{[citation needed]}
24	Memphis RTA Main Street Trolley	Memphis	3,000	Second quarter of 2006
25	Island Transit trolley	Galveston, Texas	200	Second quarter of 2006

^ APTA Ridership Reports Statistics: http://www.apta.com/research/stats/ridership/riderep/indexus.cfm
^ Light Rail Ridership's "Booming", New Transit-Oriented Development is "Sprouting", Light Rail Now May 2006: http://www.lightrailnow.org/news/n_hb_2006-05a.htm Hudson-Bergen, NJ:
^ ^a ^b ^c The APTA combines statistics for all New Jersey Transit light rail operations, which includes the Hudson-Bergen Light Rail, the Newark Light Rail, and the River Line. The APTA reports a combined ridership for the three systems for the second quarter of 2006 of 14,880 per day (both weekdays and weekends).
^ Average is for all days in the month, not just weekdays. These are pre-Katrina figures.
^ "Back to the Future" With Newark City Light Rail's New Broad St. Extension!, Light Rail Now August 2006: http://www.lightrailnow.org/news/n_nwk_2006-08a.htm Newark
^ These figures, the most recently available for the Baltimore Light Rail, represent a time period when much of the system was shut down for renovations. The most recent figures for a period when the entire system was open are 25,600 daily trips, for the fourth quarter of 2003.

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