BTS | Table 1-8: Characteristics of Rail Transit by Transit Authority: 2001

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Table 1-8: Characteristics of Rail Transit by Transit Authority: 2001

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Rail transit mode/transit agency	Primary city served	States served	Directional route-miles	Number of crossings	Number of stations	Number of ADA accessible stations
Heavy rail
Chicago Transit Auth.	Chicago	IL	206.3	25	144	64
Greater Cleveland Regional Transit Auth.	Cleveland	OH	38.2	0	18	8
L.A. County Metropolitan Transportation Auth.	Los Angeles	CA	31.9	0	16	16
Maryland Transit Administration	Baltimore	MD	29.4	0	14	14
Massachusetts Bay Transportation Auth.	Boston	MA	76.3	0	53	38
Metropolitan Atlanta Rapid Transit Auth.	Atlanta	GA	96.0	0	38	38
Miami-Dade Transit Agency	Miami	FL	42.2	0	21	0
MTA New York City Transit	New York	NY	493.8	0	468	41
MTA Staten Island Railway	New York	NY	28.6	0	23	3
Port Authority Trans-Hudson Corporation	New York	NY, NJ	25.0	2	13	6
Port Authority Transit Corporation	Philadelphia	PA, NJ	31.5	0	13	5
San Francisco Bay Area Rapid Transit District	San Francisco	CA	190.1	0	39	39
Southeastern Pennsylvania Transportation Auth.	Philadelphia	PA	76.1	0	76	4
Washington Metropolitan Area Transit Auth.	Washington	DC, MD, VA	206.6	0	83	83
Light rail
Bi-State Development Agency	St. Louis	MO, IL	68.8	23	26	26
City of Detroit Department of Transportation	Detroit	MI	1.3	8	8	0
Dallas Area Rapid Transit Auth.	Dallas	TX	47.1	68	22	22
Greater Cleveland Regional Transit Auth.	Cleveland	OH	30.8	22	34	7
Hillsborough Area Regional Transit Auth.	Tampa	FL	4.6	U	10	10
Island Transit	Galveston	TX	9.8	57	3	0
Kenosha Transit	Kenosha	WI	1.9	26	1	0
King County Department of Transportation	Seattle	WA	3.7	14	9	9
Los Angeles County Metropolitan Trans Auth.	Los Angeles	CA	82.4	77	36	36
Maryland Transit Administration	Baltimore	MD	57.6	52	32	32
Massachusetts Bay Trans Auth.	Boston	MA	51.0	56	78	16
McKinney Avenue Transit Auth.	Dallas	TX	2.8	U	0	0
Memphis Area Transit Auth.	Memphis	TN	5.8	40	28	28
New Jersey Transit Corporation	Newark	NJ	24.3	27	26	15
Niagara Frontier Transit Metro System	Buffalo	NY	12.4	8	14	7
Port Authority of Allegheny County	Pittsburgh	PA	34.8	39	13	13
Portland Streetcar	Portland	OR	4.8	87	0	0
Regional Transit Auth.	New Orleans	LA	16.0	124	9	9
Regional Transportation District	Denver	CO	28.0	34	20	20
Sacramento Regional Transit District	Sacramento	CA	40.7	90	29	29
San Diego Trolley	San Diego	CA	96.6	96	49	49
San Francisco Municipal Railway	San Francisco	CA	73.3	351	11	0
Santa Clara Valley Trans Auth.	San Jose	CA	58.4	97	49	23
Southeastern Pennsylvania Trans Auth.	Philadelphia	PA	69.3	1,702	64	0
Tri-County Metropolitan Trans District	Portland	OR	64.9	111	47	46
Utah Transit Auth.	Salt Lake City	UT	34.2	59	20	20
Commuter rail
Alaska Railroad Corporation	Anchorage	AK	275.0	27	3	3
Altamont Commuter Express Auth.	San Jose	CA	172.0	127	10	10
Central Puget Sound Regional Transit Auth.	Seattle	WA	78.6	39	7	7
Connecticut Department of Transportation	New Haven	CT	101.2	3	8	8
Maryland Transit Administration	Baltimore	MD, DC, WV	373.4	40	40	19
Massachusetts Bay Transportation Auth.	Boston	MA, RI	710.0	0	121	75
MTA Long Island Rail Road	New York	NY	638.2	402	124	97
MTA Metro-North Railroad	New York	NY, NJ, CT	545.7	162	108	28
New Jersey Transit Corporation	New York	NY, NJ, PA	975.2	329	162	46
N. San Diego County Transit Development Board	San Diego	CA	82.2	34	8	8
NE Illinois Regional Commuter Rail Corporation	Chicago	IL, WI	940.4	512	227	125
Northern Indiana Commuter Trans District	Chicago	IL, IN	179.8	117	18	7
ON TRACK	Syracuse	NY	3.5	U	3	3
Peninsula Corridor Joint Powers Board	San Francisco	CA	153.6	49	34	22
Pennsylvania Department of Transportation	Philadelphia	PA	144.4	7	14	4
South Florida Regional Transportation Auth.	Miami	FL	142.2	72	18	18
Southeastern Pennsylvania Transportation Auth.	Philadelphia	PA	449.2	116	177	30
Southern California Regional Rail Auth.	Los Angeles	CA	770.0	442	49	49
Trinity Railway Express	Dallas	TX	51.6	24	7	7
Vermont Transportation Auth.	Burlington	VT	25.0	U	3	3
Virginia Railway Express	Washington	DC, VA	177.5	23	18	18
Total			9,486.0	5,820	2,816	1,363

KEY: MTA = Metropolitan Transportation Authority; U = data are unavailable.

NOTE: Does not include several other transit rail systems including aerial tramway, automated guideway, inclined plane, and monorail. For definition of directional route-miles see table 1-7.

SOURCE: American Public Transportation Association, 2003 Public Transportation Fact Book, Washington, DC: 2003, available at http://www.apta.com/stats as of Oct. 2, 2003.