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. The term heavy rail is often used for regular railways, to distinguish from systems such as trams/light rail and metro. ... A rapid transit, underground, subway, tube, elevated, or metro(politan) system is a railway system, usually in an urban area, with a high capacity and frequency of service, and grade separation from other traffic. ...

1 - MBTA's Green Line

2 - Muni Metro, cable car, and F Market

3 - LACMTA

4 - Metropolitan Area Express

1. ^ APTA Ridership Reports Statistics: http://www.apta.com/research/stats/ridership/riderep/indexus.cfm
2. ^ TBF.org]
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4. ^ http://www.metrotransit.org/rail/facts.asp
5. ^ Hudson-Bergen, NJ: 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
6. ^ ^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).
7. ^ Average is for all days in the month, not just weekdays. These are pre-Katrina figures.
8. ^ Newark: "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
9. ^ 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.
10. ^ Roads to the Future: Baltimore Central Light Rail Line

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See also

• List of light-rail transit systems
• Light rail
• Light rail in North America
• Public transportation