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Originally Posted by SnyderBock

So what exactly makes Denver's - 62,900/day on 56 km track, rank lower than Saint Louis's - 61,573/day on 74 km of track? All other cities on the list seem to be n their proper descending order. What is the unknown variable which makes Denver's 62,900/day rank lower than Saint Louis's 61,573/day?

in 2013, Denver's 19km West Corridor light rail line will open, adding at least 20k daily riders and bringing the system track total up to ~75km with ~82,000/day ridership (not including any ridership gains between now and then on existing lines). That will put Denver's LRT system up in the next tier, right behind San Diego, Portland and Edmonton.

Oh god don't read too much into it, it was a mere mistake. I wasn't smiting Denver or anything like that.

Edmonton's current numbers are probably incorrect too, as with our new expansion (the 20.5km system that I ranked in) is estimated to have brought our ridership to almost 100 000/day. The Edmonton stats are based on 2010 track and 2009 ridership.

naidoo also did this

Originally Posted by naidoo

We've been told 100k daily ridership to be reasonable for our expanded LRT system. I took EE's more comprehensive list and calculated daily ridership/km (ranked in order of highest daily ridership/km):


City Daily Ridership Length (km) Ridership/km

New York City (subway) 7,791,700 369 21115.71816
Montreal 987,000 71 13901.40845
Toronto (subway) 942,600 68.3 13800.87848
New York City (PATH subway) 244,300 22.2 11004.5045
Philadelphia (Market subway) 178,715 20.76 8608.622351
Boston 481,300 61 7890.163934
Philadelphia (Broad St subway) 114,816 19.3 5949.015544
Calgary 266,100 48.8 5452.868852
Vancouver 344796 68.7 5018.864629
Edmonton 100,000 20.5 4878.04878
Washington DC 801,400 171 4686.549708
Chicago 640,000 170.8 3747.0726
Houston 45,000 12.1 3719.008264
Toronto (streetcar) 276,000 75 3680
Atlanta 247,200 76.6 3227.154047
Buffalo 23,200 10.3 2252.427184
San Francisco 358,500 167 2146.706587
Minneapolis-St. Paul 32,300 19.8 1631.313131
Detroit 7,500 4.7 1595.744681
Salt Lake City 43,400 30.58 1419.228254
Portland 115,400 84.7 1362.455726
Phoenix 43,509 32 1359.65625
San Diego 107,000 82.2 1301.703163
Charlotte 20,000 15.45 1294.498382
Los Angeles 144,900 127.3 1138.256088
Denver 62,900 56 1123.214286
Saint Louis 61,573 74 832.0675676
Sacramento 49,800 60.21 827.105132
Seattle/Tacoma 20,200 27.8 726.618705
Pittsburgh 24,800 40 620
Cleveland 18,600 31 600