Rank – Weekday Ridership – Commuter Rail System – (City)

  1. 385,400 - MTA Long Island Rail Road (New York City)

  2. 301,300 - MTA Metro-North Railroad (New York City)

  3. 288,300 - Metra (Chicago)

  4. 126,800 - Southeastern Pennsylvania Transportation Authority (Philadelphia)

  5. 119,800 - Massachusetts Bay Transit Authority (Boston)

  6. 71,500 - Caltrain (San Carlos)

  7. 42,800 - Regional Transportation District (Denver)

  8. 39,200 - Southern California Regional Rail Authority/Metrolink (Los Angeles)

  9. 31,100 - Maryland Transit Administration (Baltimore)

  10. 19,300 - Utah Transit Authority (Salt Lake City)

  11. 18,700 - Virginia Railway Express (Alexandria)

  12. 17,900 - Sound Transit (Seattle)

  13. 14,200 - South Florida Regional Transportation Authority/Tri-Rail (Miami)

  14. 11,700 - Northern Indiana Commuter Transportation District (Chesterton)

  15. 8,400 - San Francisco Bay Area RTD (San Francisco)

  16. 6,600 - Trinity Railway Express (Dallas)

  17. 6,100 - SunRail (Orlando)

  18. 5,800 - Capitol Corridor Joint Powers (Oakland)

  19. 5,700 - San Joaquin Regional Rail Commission (Stockton)

  20. 5,100 - North County Transit District (Oceanside)

  21. 4,700 - Phil Penn DOT (Keystone) (Harrisburg)

  22. 2,900 - Metro Transit (Minneapolis)

  23. 2,600 - New Mexico Department of Transportation (Albuqurque)

  24. 2,000 - Capital Metropolitan Transportation Authority (Austin)

  25. 1,800 - Northern NE Passenger RA (Portland)

  26. 1,500 - Alaska Railroad Corporation (Anchorage)

  27. 1,500 - Tri-County Metropolitan Transportation District (Portland)

  28. 1,400 - Denton County Transportation (Lewisville)

  29. 1,300 - Trinity Metro (Fort Worth)

  30. 1,200 - Regional Transportation Authority (Nashville)

Ridership numbers not available

Sonoma-Marin Area Rail Transit (San Rafael)

New Jersey Transit Corp (Newark)

Source: APTA Third Quarter 2019 Heavy Rail Transit Ridership Report