Metro listing
Here is an alphabetical listing of cities which have a metro (also called underground or subway) system.
This page uses the definition found on the metro article, under which a metro system:
- is urban,
- has a short headway (interval between trains),
- is electric,
- operates entirely on its own right-of-way.
This page will include all systems that obey these characteristics, without regard to specific profile or technology (i.e. underground, at grade, above ground, monorail, linear-induction...)
On the other hand, systems that are called "metro" but are really light rail (mainly those not segregated from other traffic, such as tramways and streetcars) are not included here but in List of light-rail transit systems.
Notes:
- see also U-Bahn
- see also S-Bahn
- Most northerly metro in the world
- See also VAL
- RER commuter trains offer metro-like service within the city; see also Orlyval
- Elevated Skytrain; subway under construction.
- Atlanta, Georgia (Metropolitan Atlanta Rapid Transit Authority or "MARTA")
- Baltimore, Maryland
- Boston, Massachusetts ("MBTA subway" or Massachusetts Bay Transportation Authority or just "the T")
- Chicago, Illinois (Chicago El)
- Cleveland, Ohio (Rapid Transit (RTA))
- Dallas, Texas (Dallas Area Rapid Transit)
- Edmonton, Alberta, Canada
- Houston, Texas (METRORail, Metropolitan Transit Authority of Harris County, Texas) - Planned commuter rail, pending feasibility of commuter rail system in conjunction with existing light rail
- Los Angeles, California (The Metro Red, Gold, Green, and Blue Lines)
- Miami, Florida (Miami-Dade Transit)
- Mexico City (El Metro) station list offical site
- Monterrey, Mexico (el metro, Metrorrey)
- Montreal, Canada (the metro or métro) – List of Montreal metro stations
- Newark, New Jersey, USA (Newark city subway; in addition, a branch of the PATH system links Newark to New York City)
- New York City 1904
- the New York City Subway, which is operated by MTA New York City Transit, a subsidiary of the Metropolitan Transportation Authority, and which serves four of the five boroughs of New York City
- the Staten Island Railway, another subsidiary of the Metropolitan Transportation Authority, which serves the fifth borough of New York City, Staten Island
- AirTrain JFK, a rail service linking the New York City Subway and New York's JFK Airport. Operated by the Port Authority of New York and New Jersey, the AirTrain is considered by some to be more a light-rail than a heavy-rail system
- in addition, New York City is served by the PATH underground trains, which connect the city to nearby suburbs in New Jersey and are operated by the Port Authority of New York and New Jersey
- Philadelphia, Pennsylvania (Southeastern Pennsylvania Transit Authority)
- Portland, Oregon (3 mi segment of MAX Blue line)
- San Francisco, California BART (1972). The BART includes both the subway and some bus services in the San Francisco Bay Area, both of which are fully accessible.
- Toronto, Canada - (operated by the TTC - Toronto Transit Commission) – List of Toronto subway stations
- Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada, SkyTrain - (for most of its length SkyTrain runs above ground; some consider this to be more a light-rail than a heavy-rail system).
- Washington DC (The Metro (1976), operated by the Washington Metropolitan Area Transit Authority (Official Site), and the Congressional Subway) – List of Washington metro stations
Top 10 in terms of annual passenger rides
- Moscow 3.2 billion
- Tokyo 2.7 billion
- Seoul 1.6 billion
- Mexico City 1.3 billion
- New York City 1.3 billion
- Paris 1.2 billion
- Osaka 957 million
- London 886 million (4.6 billion miles)
- Hong Kong 798 million
- St. Petersburg 784 million
Top 8 in terms of number of stations
- New York 468.
- Paris 368.
- London 270.
- Tokyo 217.
- Melbourne 200.
- Madrid 189.
- Chicago 142.
- Moscow 140.
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