FiveThirtyEight.com (ie the best general-audience statisticians on the internet) has a
great post up today about transit ridership in US cities. Click the link for the full (and very informative) post, but for your convenience here's the per capita transit ridership data pulled out for interior west urbanized areas. Note that urbanized areas are agglomerations that include multiple cities, meaning for example that Boulder is clustered as part of Denver.
Interesting that Denver & SLC are exactly neck and neck. Skip all the way down to 22 nationwide, and then you hit them both. Also, ouch, Boise.
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US IW URBAN TRIPS
RANK RANK AREA PER CAPITA
22 1 Salt Lake City 42.2
23 2 Denver 41.1
50 3 Flagstaff, AZ 26.6
57 4 Tucson, AZ 24.2
66 5 Logan, UT 20.8
68 6 Phoenix 20.0
73 7 Albuquerque 19.0
97 8 Missoula, MT 15.6
118 9 Santa Fe, NM 12.8
153 10 Ft Collins, CO 9.8
179 11 Gr Junction, CO 7.7
184 12 Pueblo, CO 7.5
193 13 Great Falls, MT 7.3
232 14 CO Springs, CO 5.2
248 15 Greeley, CO 4.3
251 16 Boise 4.1