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This is a list of the Americas rapid transit systems by ridership. These heavy rail or rapid transit systems are also known as metro or subway systems. This list of systems in the Americas does not include light rail, even when they are integrated with heavy rail. Daily and annual ridership figures are based on "average weekday unlinked passenger trips" (where transfers between lines are counted as two separate passenger "boardings" or "trips"), unless otherwise indicated (e.g., Mexico City and Monterrey, whose figures are the average for all days, not just weekdays). 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 from Banco de Información Económica's INEGI reports for the year 2014.[2] Ridership figures for the Dominican Republic come from the Directorate of Operations Santo Domingo Metro report for the year 2013.[3]

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  Mexico Mexico City 1,591,984,000[note 2][needs update] 4,361,600[note 3][needs update] 140.75 miles (226.5 km)[6] 30,984 1969 195[7] 12[7]
3 São Paulo Metropolitan Trains Company  BRA São Paulo 867,700,000[8] 2,900,000[8] 273 km (169.6 mi)[8] 10,622 1992[8] 94[8] 7[8] 2019
4 Caracas Metro  VEN Caracas 484,600,000[9] 3,300,000 52.4 km (32.6 mi) 25,337 1983 48 4 2019
5 Santiago Metro  CHI Santiago 670,100,000[10] 2,200,000[11] 140 km (87.0 mi) 17,255 1975 136 7 2019
6 Toronto subway[note 4]  Canada Toronto 474,483,300 1,602,300 47.8 miles (76.9 km)[12] 33,520 1954[12] 75[12] 4[12]
7 MetrôRio  BRA Rio de Janeiro 401,500,000[13] 1,100,000 58 km (36.0 mi) 26,830 1979 35 2 2012
8 Montreal Metro  Canada Montreal 400,280,900 1,421,200 43 miles (69 km)[14] 33,051 1966 68 4
9 Subte  ARG Buenos Aires 365,000,000[15] 1,000,000[16] 54.9 km (34.1 mi) 18,214 1913 87 6 2019
10 Medellín Metro  COL Medellín 206,101,000[17] 530,000[18] 31.3 km (19.4 mi) 16,933 1995 27 2 2018
5 Washington Metro  USA Washington, D.C. Metropolitan Area 237,701,100 816,700 129 miles (208 km)[19] 6,532 1976[19] 97[19] 6
6 Chicago 'L'  USA Chicago 218,467,000 695,300 102.8 miles (165.4 km)[20] 7,001 1892[20] 145[20] 8[20]
7 Metrorrey  Mexico Monterrey 180,818,000[note 2][needs update] 512,100[note 3][needs update] 25 miles (40 km)[21] 25,605 1991[22] 40[21] 3[21]
10 Lima Metro  PER Lima 124,134,820[23] 554,000[24] 34.6 km (21.5 mi) 10,250 1990/2011 26 1 12/2014
11 Sistema de Tren Eléctrico Urbano  MEX Guadalajara 103,649,000[citation needed] 283,970[citation needed] 47 km (29.2 mi)[25] 10,000 1989 48 3 2018
12 Recife Metro  BRA Recife 79,600,000[26] 285,000 44.2 km (27.5 mi) 6,448 1985 30 4 2012
8 SkyTrain  Canada Vancouver 165,104,000[27] 495,800[citation needed] 49.4 miles (79.5 km)[28] 10,036 1985 53[28] 3[28]
9 MBTA subway[note 5]
(Blue, Orange, and Red Lines) 		 USA Boston 152,339,700 475,300 38 miles (61 km)[29] 13,408 1901 53[29] 4[29]
10 BART  USA San Francisco
Bay Area 		123,510,100 421,100 131.4 miles (211.5 km)[30] 4,006 1972[30] 48[30] 6[31]
11 SEPTA[32][33][note 5]
(Broad Street (Orange),
Market–Frankford (Blue), and Norristown High Speed Lines) 		 USA Philadelphia 90,240,800 329,200 36.7 miles (59.1 km)[32][34] 8,929 1907 75[33] 3[33]
12 PATH  USA Jersey City, Newark, NJ 90,276,600 306,700 13.8 miles (22.2 km)[35] 22,464 1908 13[36] 5[36]
13 MARTA  USA Atlanta 63,998,500 – 48 miles (77 km)[37] 4,288 1979 38[37] 4
14 Panama Metro  Panama Panama City n/a 180,000[38][needs update] 22.9 miles (36.9 km)[39] 21,176 2014 12[40] 1[40]
15 Santo Domingo Metro  Dominican Republic Santo Domingo 61,270,054[3][needs update] 177,844[3]
[note 3][needs update] 		17.0 miles (27.4 km)[41][42] 10,461 2009 30[41][42] 2[41][42]
15 Trensurb  BRA Porto Alegre 62,000,000[43] 170,000 39 km (24.2 mi) 4,359 1985 19 1 2011
16 Belo Horizonte Metro  BRA Belo Horizonte 57,419,280[44] 157,300 28.1 km (17.5 mi) 5,598 1986 19 1 2012
17 Federal District Metro  BRA Brasília 54,750,000[45] 150,000 42.4 km (26.3 mi) 3,538 2001 24 2 2009
18 Xochimilco Light Rail  MEX Mexico City 21,000,000[46] 57,534 12.8 km (8.0 mi) 4,495 1986 18 1 2007
19 Valparaíso Metro  CHI Valparaíso 20,120,000[47] 55,123 43 km (26.7 mi)[47] 1,096 2005 20 1 2013
20 Valencia Metro  VEN Valencia 17,200,000[48] 62,000 6.2 km (3.9 mi) 10,000 2006 7 1 2012
21 Los Teques Metro[note 6]  VEN Los Teques/Caracas 13,000,000[49] 35,616 10.2 km (6.3 mi) 3,490 2006 3 1 08/2013
16 Metro Rail[note 5]
(B and D Lines) 		 USA Los Angeles 41,775,100 130,900 17.4 miles (28.0 km)[50] 7,994 1993[50] 16[50] 2[50]
17 Miami Metrorail  USA Miami 18,073,100 62,600 24.9 miles (40.1 km)[51] 2,723 1984 23[51] 2
18 PATCO Speedline  USA Philadelphia 11,107,500 38,400 14.2 miles (22.9 km)[52] 2,732 1936[52] 13[52] 1[52]
19 Staten Island Railway  USA New York City 7,741,000 18,500 14.0 miles (22.5 km)[4] 2,100 1860 22[4] 1[4]
20 Baltimore Metro Subway[note 5]  USA Baltimore 7,325,500 36,600 15.5 miles (24.9 km)[53] 884 1983 14[53] 1[53]
21 RTA Rapid Transit[note 5]
(Red Line) 		 USA Cleveland 5,958,000 15,900 19 miles (31 km)[54] 1,000 1955 18[54] 1[54]
22 Tren Urbano  Puerto Rico (US) San Juan 5,233,900 20,300 10.7 miles (17.2 km) 1,963 2004 16 1
23 Maracaibo Metro  VEN Maracaibo 9,000,000[55] 42,000 6.5 km (4.0 mi) 3,490 2006 6 1 2011
24 Teresina Metro[note 7]  BRA Teresina 4,300,000[56] 12,000 14.5 km (9.0 mi) 828 1989 9 1 2009
25 Fortaleza Metro  BRA Fortaleza n/a n/a 43 km (26.7 mi) n/a 2012 28 2 n/a
26 Metrotranvía Mendoza  ARG Mendoza n/a n/a 12.5 km (7.8 mi) n/a 2012 26 1 n/a
27 Salvador Metro  BRA Salvador n/a 300,000 (Projected) 30 km (18.6 mi) n/a 2014 19 2 n/a
28 Maceió Metro  BRA Maceió n/a 40,000 (Projected) 32 km (19.9 mi) n/a 1997 n/a 1 n/a
29 Cariri Metro[note 7]  BRA Crato–Juazeiro n/a 5,000 13.9 km (8.6 mi) 360 2009 9 1 n/a
30 Quito Metro  ECU Quito n/a n/a 22 km (13.7 mi) n/a 2023 15 1 2022
31 Skyline (Honolulu)  USA Honolulu n/a n/a 17.4 km (10.8 mi) n/a 2023 9 1 2023
For a given population size, New York, some Mexican and Canadian cities tend to have higher public transit usage.[a]

Notes

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  1. ^ This data goes beyond rapid transit and encompasses all public transport, including modes such as buses
  1. ^ The current system incorporates elevated sections built in 1870.
  2. ^ a b This Annual Ridership figure for 2014 is obtained by averaging the Average Daily Ridership for the twelve months in 2014, and then multiplying that figure by the number of days in a year.
  3. ^ a b c This is the Average Daily Ridership figure, not an Average Weekday Ridership figure – it is averaged from the Q4 2014 Total Ridership figure for this system.
  4. ^ Totals represent the sum of the "Heavy Rail (HR)" and "Intermediate Rail (IR)" figures for Toronto from the APTA ridership report – in other words, figures include stations and ridership on Line 3 Scarborough (RT), which APTA considers to be an IR line and which the Toronto Transit Commission includes in the rapid transit system for mapping and administrative purposes.
  5. ^ a b c d e This rapid transit system is integrated with a light rail system; only the parts of the system that are rapid transit/metro, and that are not light rail, are counted in the statistics presented here.
  6. ^ The Los Teques Metro is generally considered to be part of the Caracas Metro.
  7. ^ a b Uses diesel rail vehicles, rather than the electrified vehicles used on rapid transit systems.

References

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