How many cities in the US have at least one subway station?
Seriously , I'm curious . Could a top 20 be made? Obviously New York would be on top.
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Does it have to be underground or are you talking about heavy rail only?
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I guess You mean municipalities. I think most systems runs within a single city or municipality, as New York. But Washington goes by some different municipalities, the same as BART, And I think Atlanta. PATH in NY-NJ runs within four municipalities, I think, and PATCO between Philadelphia and NJ also goes by some different municipalities.
Here is a Wikipedia list where You can find all United States systems and find out the ubication of the stations. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of...s_by_ridership |
We can do this. Here are the 50 largest urbanized areas.
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There are probably a few extra ghost stations underground as well.
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Metra (reporting mark METX) is the commuter rail division of the Regional Transportation Authority of the Chicago metropolitan area. Metropolitan Rail Corporation or Metra operates 241 stations on 11 different rail lines. Throughout the 21st century, it has been at least the fourth busiest commuter rail system in the United States by ridership. Experiencing a 1.7% decline in ridership from the previous year, Metra trains offered 81.3 million passenger rides in 2012. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Metra Which would rank 7th. Or if combined with the L rank second. |
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In addition to those, Miami, Detroit and Las Vegas each have at least one line of sort of elevated, grade-separated, not-a-bus transportation that might be included if "subway" was used as shorthand for "metro-style service" and not meant to mean literally underground. |
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Louisiana station on the SE line in Denver feels sort of like a subway station. Part of the platform is beneath an underpass and you go down stairs from a street level plaza. Aside from the fact it's next to a giant freeway that's a really nice little urban corner actually.
I know it doesn't count though. I just felt like posting because when I rode the line I thought it was in fact underground and did not realize it wasn't until I just glanced at Google Maps. I'm trying to think if any other ambiguous cases exist. |
My list is urbanized areas, not incorporated cities (because incorporated cities are meaningless), and not transit agencies (because some cities have consolidated regional agencies and some don't).
And it's for underground rail stations, regardless of heavy/light/whatever. An underground light rail station counts, but an elevated heavy rail one does not. Others are of course free to make separate lists using separate methods, if they prefer. |
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That is because Metra, as that extract forma Wikipedia says, is considered commuter rail. In Chicago, the system considered as urban heavy rail AKA metro (which is a better word that subway since can be either subway, elevated or at ground level) Here is the list of commuter rail systems in the US http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of...s_by_ridership |
You mean ANY underground rail station in ANY city?
So like Union City, NJ counts, because the light rail stations are underground? |
^ i was just wondering that, if so its going to be the same for seattle too.
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By subway stations do you mean any rail station, either heavy, light or commuter ubicated on an underground or subterranean level? And what do you mean by cities, is it municipalities or metropolitan areas? As crawford said, there is an underground light rail station in Union City that could be considered either on that city, as a separate entity or in metropolitan New York. Also PATH Have some underground and some elevated stations. If You also include commuter rail, then I think that Penn Station could be considered as such, since it is located underground, as millenium station in Chicago is. |
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I simply mean a form of rapid rail transit that is underground and connected within a region. So for instance, you could consider New York's Subway system as one , and Path in New Jersey another. There are always variables that make it perplexing to ponder up a list. So make your own list, with your own rules. This isn't a super serious question. In my own mind, I would consider St Louis' Metrolink one city's system with 4 subway stations, despite the fact that it goes through various other suburban cities in Illinois and Missouri. It's all run by the same agency. |
Miami doesn't have any "Underground" stations at all.
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The systems with at least one station underground would be, as far as I know
-New York Area Subway PATH Hudson Bergen Light Rail -Chicago Area El Metra commuter -Philadelphia area Subway PATCO -San Francisco area BART Muni Metro -Boston -Los Angeles -Washington -Atlanta -Baltimore -Pittsburgh -Cleveland -Saint Louis -Minneapolis -Seattle -Portland -Dallas I could have some left. To calculate how many stations in each system are underground could be pretty difficult (good luck with New York) in other cases just one or two stations are underground. |
Cincinnati has four subway stations that are currently being used by Casper, Slimer, and George Burns.
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