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Originally Posted by Crawford
Metra system is vast, but the bulk of ridership is on a few lines..
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there are 8 "have" metra lines with great to decent ridership, and 3 "have not" metra lines with abysmally low ridership.
and then there's the south shore, which is also pretty low, but technically not a part of metra.
2017 Annual Metra Ridership By Line:
BNSF ----- 16,227,453 (20.6%)
UP-NW --- 10,910,483 (13.9%)
UP-N ------- 9,028,965 (11.5%)
UP-W ------ 8,332,483 (10.6%)
ME --------- 8,149,693 (10.4%)
RI ---------- 7,923,588 (10.1%)
MD-N ------ 6,818,808 (8.7%)
MD-W ----- 6,349,815 (8.1%)
SWS ------- 2,457,418 (3.1%)
NCS ------- 1,684,357 (2.1%)
HC ----------- 727,202 (0.9%)
TOTAL: 78,610,265
SS - ~3,400,000 (not part of Metra)
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Originally Posted by Centropolis
having extensive, big boy commuter rail lines seem to be real skyscraper fuel for both toronto and chicago. local mass transit is great and essential for cities but these colossal CBD/centralized skyscraper clusters need suburban-fuel. metra seems to have been the real supercharger to keep downtown chicago in the game...i think without it you would have had a half-detroit situation downtown.
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metra is a
HUGE reason why downtown chicago weathered the deindustrialization dark ages so much better than downtown detroit did.