scale of the mta: passenger count

How Big is the MTA Really?(NYC Subways, Railroads and Buses)

2015

Amtrak vs DC Transit

Let us first understand the size of other public transportation entities for the amount of passengers they carry PER YEAR.

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30 Million Passengers Per Year

Amtrak

Washington DC Transit

270 Million Passengers Per Year

Top 7 US Public Transport System

Even combining those two entities: they are still too small to even make a comparison to the MTA. Let us add some more Transit Systems throughout the United States (Top 7).

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30 Million

Amtrak

71 Million

74 Million

Atlanta Bosto

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Philly San Fran

PATH(NJ/NY)

Chicago

Washington DC

97 Million

132 Million

175 Million

238 Million

271 Million

Top 7 vs Amtrack

Getting Closer…. But we still need more.

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Amtrak

Top US 7 Public Transport Systems

30 Million

1,058 Million Passengers

Top 10 World Wide Airlines

Let us now add the top 10 largest World Wide Airlines by passengers:

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65 Million

Amtrak

78 Million

79 Million

LATA

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Southwest

China Eastern

Ryan Air

Lufthansa

Delta

America

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86 Million

133 Million

139 Million

165 Million

194 Million

United

easyJet

China Southern

65 Million

67 Million

30 Million

Compared to the MTA

Now that we have a better understanding of how big the largest US transit systems are well as the largest world wide airliners, we can now compare them to the MTA.

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Amtrak

7 Largest US Transport Systems

30 Million

2,700 Million

10 Largest World Wide Airlines

MTA

1,058 Million 1,070 Million

30 Million

Overall comparison

The MTA still moves over 25% more passengers than the Largest 10 world wide airlines and Largest 7 US Transit system COMBINED.

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30 Million

2,700 Million

10 Largest World Wide Airlines & 7 Largest US

Transport Systems

MTA

30 Million

Amtrak

2,128 Million

Does not even include …

And that does not even include all the cars, buses, trucks that travel through the 7 MTA Bridges and 2 Tunnels!

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