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Originally Posted by Yuri
Bringing Germany:
---------- System -- Stations - Lenght - Annual Ridership (millions)
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Berlin ------- U-Bahn/S-Bahn ----- 343 --- 495.6 km --- 1,010.3
München ------ U-Bahn/S-Bahn ----- 246 --- 529.0 km ----- 722.0
Hamburg ------ U-Bahn/S-Bahn ----- 161 --- 253.4 km ----- 504.4
Frankfurt ---- U-Bahn/S-Bahn ----- 198 --- 367.9 km ----- 273.6
Köln --------- Stadtbahn --------- 236 --- 199.0 km ----- 236.2
Düsseldorf --- Stadtbahn --------- 166 ---- 98.7 km ----- 173.0
Nürnberg ----- U-Bahn/S-Bahn ----- 142 --- 372.4 km ----- 147.4
Rhein-Ruhr --- S-Bahn ------------ 181 --- 475.0 km ----- 130.0
A very unique place: here the exponential density of transit doesn't apply. It's all proportional showing how well served the smaller cities are.
Munich is mind-blowing: a 2.5 million people metro area and rivals the transit famous Berlin. |
Keep in mind that German transit doesn't use heavy rail/light rail distinctions. There are only four heavy rail systems - Berlin, Munich, Hamburg and Nürnberg. The remainder of U-Bahn systems are light rail. In the 1970's Germany spent vast sums building core tunnels for basically all its metropolitan light rail networks. Germany also spent vast sums tunneling commuter rail.
S-Bahn are commuter rail and run by Deutsche Bahn, so you're conflating different systems. Granted, they're very well integrated but this is like taking Muni, BART and Amtrak ridership as a singular metropolitan rail system.
And there is no real difference between U-Bahn and Stadtbahn. They're just interchangeable terms describing some sort of rail, which may be "subway" or may be upgraded light rail.
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