scale of the mta: passenger count
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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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