scale of the mta: passenger count
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How Big is the MTA Really?(NYC Subways, Railroads and Buses)
2015
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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
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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
n
Philly San Fran
PATH(NJ/NY)
Chicago
Washington DC
97 Million
132 Million
175 Million
238 Million
271 Million
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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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