I split my time between two Canadian cities, Montreal and Vancouver.
MONTREAL
I have numbers for average weekday ridership, but not numbers that take weekends into account, for what that's worth. These are 2011 numbers from the American Public Transit Association
Commuter Rail is: 70,900/day
Metro: 1,111,700/day
Bus: 1,403,700/day
VANCOUVER
Weekday average =
Commuter rail: 11,100/day
Skytrain: 406,300/day
Buses: 774,500/day
Don't put too much comparitive stock into the bus numbers, the Vancouver numbers are for Translink which runs transit most places in metro Vancouver (some exceptions), whereas the bus numbers in Montreal are just for the STM which runs things on the island of Montreal (population 1.9 million), and suburbs like Laval and Longeuil have their own bus systems (total metro is 4 million). The Metro extends under rivers into Laval and Longeuil so their systems feed it at those ends.
One other bit of trivia, Vancouver is home to the continents' busiest bus route. The 99B line comes every 2 minutes and carrys 55,000 passengers average on weekdays. Freaking brutal, constantly passing people up at peak times, same for any and all parallel routes, even on other streets. We need a subways to replace it badly.
Last edited by BIMBAM; Feb 7, 2013 at 2:59 AM.
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