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marmar

(78,097 posts) Sat Jan 21, 2012, 10:44 AM Jan 2012

List of U.S. cities with high transit ridership

per wikipedia:

1. New York, New York - 54.24%
2. Jersey City, New Jersey - 46.62%
3. Washington, D.C. - 38.97%
4. Boston, Massachusetts - 31.6%
5. San Francisco, California - 30.29%
6. Philadelphia, Pennsylvania - 26.43%
7. Arlington, Virginia - 26.28%
8. Yonkers, New York - 25.47%
9. Chicago, Illinois - 25.38%
10. Newark, New Jersey - 24.04%
11. Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania - 21.14%
12. Alexandria, Virginia - 20.55%
13. Baltimore, Maryland - 19.55%
14. Seattle, Washington - 17.79%
15. Berkeley, California - 17.36%
16. Daly City, California - 17.27%
17. Oakland, California - 16.72%
18. Buffalo, New York - 15.62%
19. Richmond, California - 15.55%
20. Hartford, Connecticut - 15.5%
21. Atlanta, Georgia - 14.85%
22. Edison, New Jersey - 14.82%
23. Paterson, New Jersey - 13.85%
24. East Los Angeles, California - 13.75%
25. Minneapolis, Minnesota - 13.19%
26. Portland, Oregon - 12.64%
27. Cleveland, Ohio - 12.22%
28. Miami, Florida - 12.16%
29. Stamford, Connecticut - 11.86%
30. San Juan, Puerto Rico - 11.26%

The complete list is at: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_U.S._cities_with_high_transit_ridership

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List of U.S. cities with high transit ridership (Original Post) marmar Jan 2012 OP

There's also a list of cities with the most pedestrian commuters nxylas Jan 2012 #1

Those numbers should be combined with Pedestrian and Bicycle commuters happyslug Jan 2012 #2

Stamford? Seriously? KamaAina Jan 2012 #3

nxylas

(6,440 posts)

1. There's also a list of cities with the most pedestrian commuters

Reply to marmar (Original post)

Sat Jan 21, 2012, 12:18 PM

Jan 2012

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_U.S._cities_with_most_pedestrian_commuters

My former hometown of Columbia, SC is at #5. Pretty impressive considering how few sidewalks there are there.

happyslug

(14,779 posts)

2. Those numbers should be combined with Pedestrian and Bicycle commuters

Reply to marmar (Original post)

Sat Jan 21, 2012, 12:27 PM

Jan 2012

Pedestrian commuters list:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_U.S._cities_with_most_pedestrian_commuters

Bicycle commuters list:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_U.S._cities_with_most_bicycle_commuters

Thus a better list would be a non-car commuter list such as:
http://www.bikesatwork.com/carfree/census-lookup.php?state_select=ALL_STATES&lower_pop=250000&upper_pop=999999999&sort_num=4&show_rows=25&first_row=0

Thus NYC has 54% using mass transit, 65% use mass transit or walk to work NYC has few bicycle commuters compare to the rest of nation in cities over 250,000 people).NYC has the second highest use of pedestrian traffic at 11% of all commuters.

Washington DC it is 34% who use mass transit and 48% who use mass transit, walk or bike to work and the Third highest Bicycle use in the US at 3.1% of commuters. Has the highest Pedestrian transportation use in Cities over 250,000 people at 12 % of daily commuters.

Boston it is 33% mass transit use, and 47% of all commuters using non-automotive transportation.

San Francisco it is 34% and 45% (Second Highest bicycle use at 3.5%, fourth highest pedestrian use at just under 10%)

Philadelphia it is 25% using mass transit and 37% (Fifth highest Pedestrian commute at just over 9% of all commuters)

Newark NJ it is 26% using mass transit and 35% of all commuters using non-automotive transportation.

Chicago it is 26% using mass transit and 35% of all commuters using non-automotive transportation.

Pittsburgh, PA it is 20% using mass transit and 32 % of all commuters using non-automotive transportation(Third highest Pedestrian traffic as just under 11%)

Seattle it is 18% using mass transit and 28% of all commuters using non-automotive transportation (Highest Bicycle use at 3.6%, through TWICE as many people walk to work in Seattle as ride their bikes, at 7% of all commuters it is 19th on the list of Pedestrian commuters).

Baltimore MD it is 20% use mass transit and 27% of all commuters using non-automotive transportation.

Please note over the last ten years I have seen a huge increase in bike commuters so the above 2000 data may NOT be accurate today, but it is the latest data I can find and thus the "best" data.

KamaAina

(78,249 posts)

3. Stamford? Seriously?

Reply to marmar (Original post)

Thu Jan 26, 2012, 06:04 PM

Jan 2012

I doubt that reflects local Connecticut Transit ridership. The service is wholly inadequate to support those gaudy numbers, with most routes on 30-minute headways. They must be counting people who drive to the train and take Metro-North in to the city, and/or people who commute into Stamford by train. (For a city of just over 100,000, Stamford boasts an impressive list of corporate employers, led by GTE and Xerox.)

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