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Originally Posted by SFBruin
I mean, this is cherry-picked data, though. The London Underground covers a larger land area than does the NYC subway, and very well cover a larger population. So, the fact that it has lower ridership than does the NYC subway might indicate that the London Underground is underperforming.
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The Underground barely serves Greater London south of the Thames. In Outer London, which is sparsely populated compared to NYC's outer boroughs, the lines diverge and become 2 miles (ish) apart.
So the Underground serves about the same land area as the NYC Subway and a much smaller population, yet manages to draw 5 million riders each weekday. This leads me to conclude that NYC Subway underperforms on paper, without taking into account actual quality of service and politics. Other factors probably include NYC being more traversable by car (taxi, ride share, private auto) and population distribution whereby the outer boroughs have a certain independence from Manhattan.
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