The Red Line has the highest ridership of all the lines, so it would be unusual for it not to also have the most crimes reported. Total rail ridership on the CTA was reported as about 225 million rides in 2018 (the last year we have full reporting for), although I don't understand the difference between their reported total rail system ridership of 225 million and the 186.3 million I get if I add up the totals for each of the lines. Anyone know why there's that difference?
Anyway, if I use the 186.3 million summed across the 8 lines, of those, 14 million rides were on the Dan Ryan branch of the Red Line (Cermak-Chinatown and south), 17.5 million were in the State Street subway portion (Lake through Roosevelt), and 40 million rides were from Grand north to Howard, for a total Red Line ridership of 71.5 million rides, or 38.4% of all riders.
The Blue Line is the second-highest ridership line and has 26.5 million riders on the O'Hare branch, 9.3 million in the Dearborn Subway, and the Forest Park/Congress branch has 8.8 million, for total ridership of 44.6 million riders. The the entire Blue Line, the second-highest-ridership line in the system, has 24% of the total ridership.
Together, the Red and Blue Lines consist of 62.4% of all CTA rail riders, so of course they'll have the majority of crimes reported, plus they both go through all the extremes of wealth that Chicago has meaning that more than some other lines, like the Brown Line, there's more of a mix of rich and poor for greater stretches.
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