BTS | Table 1-9: Characteristics of Rail Transit by Transit Authority: 2003

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Table 1-9: Characteristics of Rail Transit by Transit Authority: 2003

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Rail transit mode/transit agency	Primary city served	States served	Directional route-miles	Number of crossings	Number of stations²	Number of ADA accessible stations³
Heavy rail, total	11	12	1,597.3	27	1,023	416
Metropolitan Atlanta Rapid Transit Authority	Atlanta	GA	96.1	0	38	38
Maryland Transit Administration	Baltimore	MD	29.4	0	14	14
Massachusetts Bay Transportation Authority	Boston	MA	76.3	0	53	42
Chicago Transit Authority	Chicago	IL	206.3	25	144	66
Greater Cleveland Regional Transit Authority	Cleveland	OH	38.1	0	18	9
L.A. County Metropolitan Transportation Auth.	Los Angeles	CA	31.9	0	16	16
Miami-Dade Transit Agency	Miami	FL	45.0	0	22	22
MTA New York City Transit	New York	NY	493.8	0	468	50
MTA Staten Island Railway	New York	NY	28.6	0	23	4
Port Authority Trans-Hudson Corporation	New York	NY, NJ	28.6	2	13	7
Port Authority Transit Corporation	Philadelphia	PA, NJ	31.5	0	13	5
Southeastern Pennsylvania Transportation Auth.	Philadelphia	PA	76.1	0	75	17
San Francisco Bay Area Rapid Transit District	San Francisco	CA	209.0	0	43	43
Washington Metropolitan Area Transit Auth.	Washington	DC, MD, VA	206.6	0	83	83
Light rail, total	25	19	1,018.7	3,457	630	482
Maryland Transit Administration	Baltimore	MD	57.6	52	32	32
Massachusetts Bay Transportation Authority	Boston	MA	51.0	56	70	25
Niagara Frontier Transit Metro System	Buffalo	NY	12.4	8	15	7
Greater Cleveland Regional Transit Authority	Cleveland	OH	30.4	22	34	8
Dallas Area Rapid Transit Authority	Dallas	TX	87.7	98	34	34
McKinney Avenue Transit Authority	Dallas	TX	2.8	U	0	0
Regional Transportation District	Denver	CO	31.6	39	24	24
Detroit Department of Transportation	Detroit	MI	0.0	8	8	0
Island Transit	Galveston	TX	11.8	57	3	3
Metro Transit Authority of Harris County	Houston	TX	15.0	64	16	16
Kenosha Transit	Kenosha	WI	1.9	19	2	1
Los Angeles County Metropolitan Trans. Auth.	Los Angeles	CA	82.4	77	36	36
Memphis Area Transit Authority	Memphis	TN	5.8	0	1	1
Regional Transit Authority	New Orleans	LA	16.0	124	9	9
New Jersey Transit Corporation	Newark	NJ	28.3	30	27	15
Southeastern Pennsylvania Transportation Auth.	Philadelphia	PA	69.3	1,702	46	0
Port Authority of Allegheny County	Pittsburgh	PA	34.8	39	14	14
Portland Streetcar	Portland	OR	4.8	87	0	0
Tri-County Metropolitan Trans. District	Portland	OR	81.3	196	52	52
Sacramento Regional Transit District	Sacramento	CA	40.7	93	31	30
Bi-State Development Agency	St. Louis	MO, IL	75.8	24	28	28
Utah Transit Authority	Salt Lake City	UT	37.3	58	23	23
San Diego Trolley	San Diego	CA	96.6	96	49	48
San Francisco Municipal Railway	San Francisco	CA	72.9	351	9	9
Santa Clara Valley Trans. Authority	San Jose	CA	58.4	97	44	44
Central Puget Sound Regional Trans. Auth.	Seattle	WA	3.6	25	6	6
King County Department of Transportation	Seattle	WA	3.7	14	9	9
Hillsborough Area Regional Transit Auth.	Tampa	FL	4.8	21	8	8
Commuter rail, total¹	16	18	6,905.2	2,531	1,163	656
Alaska Railroad Corporation	Anchorage	AK	92.4	27	10	10
Maryland Transit Administration	Baltimore	MD, DC, WV	400.4	40	42	22
Massachusetts Bay Transportation Authority	Boston	MA, RI	702.1	0	125	81
NE Illinois Regional Commuter Rail Corporation	Chicago	IL, WI	940.4	512	227	134
Northern Indiana Commuter Trans. District	Chicago	IL, IN	179.8	117	20	11
Trinity Railway Express	Dallas/Ft. Worth	TX	69.5	34	9	9
Southern California Regional Rail Authority	Los Angeles	CA	778.0	443	53	53
South Florida Regional Transportation Auth.	Miami	FL	142.2	72	18	18
Connecticut Department of Transportation	New Haven	CT	101.2	3	8	8
MTA Long Island Rail Road	New York	NY	638.2	402	124	99
MTA Metro-North Railroad	New York	NY, NJ, CT	545.7	161	109	32
New Jersey Transit Corporation	New York	NY, NJ, PA	1,070.2	329	168	52
Pennsylvania Department of Transportation	Philadelphia	PA	144.4	7	12	4
Southeastern Pennsylvania Transportation Auth.	Philadelphia	PA	449.2	116	156	51
N. San Diego County Transit Development Board	San Diego	CA	82.2	34	8	8
Peninsula Corridor Joint Powers Board	San Francisco	CA	153.7	49	34	24
Altamont Commuter Express Authority	San Jose	CA	172.0	127	10	10
Central Puget Sound Regional Transit Auth.	Seattle	WA	78.6	35	9	9
ON TRACK	Syracuse	NY	3.5	U	3	3
Virginia Railway Express	Washington	DC, VA	161.5	23	18	18
United States, total	33	28	9,521.2	6,015	2,816	1,554

¹ Excludes commuter-type services operated independently by Amtrak.

² Many light rail lines have numerous stops in the street that do not meet the definition of station.

³ Additional stations may be wheelchair accessible but not comply with other provisions of the Americans with Disabilities Act.

KEY: ADA = Americans with Disabilities Act of 1990; 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 1-8. Heavy rail, light rail, and commuter rail are defined in the glossary.

SOURCE: American Public Transportation Association, 2005 Public Transportation Fact Book, Washington, DC: 2005, available at http://www.apta.com/research/stats/rail/index.cfm as of Sept. 21, 2005.