# List of North American light rail systems

The following is a list of all light rail systems in North America, ranked by ridership. Daily figures for American and Canadian light rail systems are "average weekday unlinked passenger trips" (where transfers between lines are counted as two separate passenger "boardings" or "trips"), unless otherwise indicated. For light rail systems in the United States and Canada, these figures come from the American Public Transit Association (APTA) Ridership Reports statistics. For Mexico, the figures are obtained from Banco de Información Económica's Instituto Nacional de Estadísitica y Geografía (INEGI), and the daily figures represent daily passenger trips averaged from the monthly and quarterly ridership figures. "Daily boardings per mile" figures have been rounded to the nearest 5 or 10.
The question of which systems would qualify as "light rail transit systems" is debatable, so this table includes some systems (such as Toronto's) which are technically streetcars rather than "true" light rail.

## Systems

| System | Country | City/Area served | Annual ridership (2024) | Avg. daily weekday boardings (Q4 2024) | System length | Avg. daily boardings per mile (Q4 2019) | Year opened | Stations | Lines | Year last expanded |
| Sistema de Tren Eléctrico Urbano | MEX | Guadalajara | 168,605,000 | 450,601 | 47.0 km (29.2 mi) | 19,800 | 1989 | 48 | 3 | 2020 |
| CTrain | CAN | Calgary | 94,052,040 | 289,045 | 59.9 km (37.2 mi) | 8,395 | 1981 | 45 | 2 | 2014 |
| Toronto streetcar system | CAN | Toronto | 79,295,000 | 235,700 | 82 km (51 mi) | 3,915 | 1861 | 708 streetcar stops | 11 | 2016 |
| Metro Rail light rail: A, C, E, & K lines | USA | Los Angeles | 46,178,300 | 147,300 | 141.8 km (88.1 mi) | 2,390 | 1990 | 72 | 5 | 2024 |
| San Diego Trolley (incl. Silver Line) | USA | San Diego | 41,069,900 | 127,300 | 105 km (65 mi) | 2,155 | 1981 | 62 | 4 | 2021 |
| MBTA light rail: Green Line & Mattapan Line | USA | Boston | 30,631,700 | 101,500 | 42 km (26 mi) | 6,265 | 1897; 1929 | 74 | 2 | 2022 |
| Link light rail: 1 Line, 2 Line, and T Line | USA | Seattle and Tacoma | 30,438,000 | 98,300 | 58.90 km (36.6 mi) | 3,820 | 2003 | 39 | 3 | 2024 |
| Xochimilco Light Rail | MEX | Mexico City | 29,545,000 | 97,282 | 13.04 km (8.10 mi) | 11,010 | 1986 | 18 | 1 | 2008 |
| Muni Metro (incl. F Market) | USA | San Francisco | 29,361,800 | 95,000 | 57.5 km (35.7 mi) | 4,480 | 1980 | 152 | 8 | 2023 |
| Edmonton LRT | CAN | Edmonton | 29,145,000 | 109,500 | 28.2 km (17.5 mi) | 7,335 | 1978 | 29 | 3 | 2024 |
| MAX Light Rail | USA | Portland, Oregon | 24,383,900 | 73,900 | 97 km (60 mi) | 1,995 | 1986 | 97 | 5 | 2015 |
| DART light rail | USA | Dallas | 21,380,900 | 71,700 | 150 km (93 mi) | 1,030 | 1996 | 64 | 4 | 2016 |
| NJ Transit Light Rail | USA | Newark, New Jersey, as well as Hudson, Mercer, Burlington, and Camden Counties. | 22,215,800 | 61,918 | 174.0 km (108.1 mi) | 2,985 | 1935 | 86 | 3 | 2011 |
| O-Train | CAN | Ottawa | 20,838,300 | 76,600 | 12.5 km (7.8 mi) | n/a | 2019 | 13 | 1 | n/a |
| METRO Light Rail | USA | Minneapolis | 15,489,100 | 44,600 | 35.1 km (21.8 mi) | 3,515 | 2004 | 37 | 2 | 2014 |
| SEPTA Metro light rail: Subway–Surface Trolleys (T), Media–Sharon Hill Line (D), & Route 15 Trolley (G) | USA | Philadelphia | 15,281,900 | 55,800 | 110.1 km (68.4 mi) | 1,330 | 1858 | >100 | 8 | 2005 |
| TRAX (light rail) | USA | Salt Lake City | 13,965,200 | 44,900 | 72.1 km (44.8 mi) | 1,288 | 1999 | 50 | 3 | 2013 |
| METRORail | USA | Houston | 13,546,400 | 42,200 | 36.9 km (22.9 mi) | 2,651 | 2004 | 37 | 3 | 2015 |
| RTD Light Rail | USA | Denver | 11,161,800 | 37,800 | 94.1 km (58.5 mi) | 1,740 | 1994 | 46 | 6 | 2017 |
| Valley Metro Rail | USA | Phoenix | 11,100,300 | 31,700 | 48 km (29.8 mi) | 1,800 | 2008 | 41 | 1 | 2024 |
| St. Louis MetroLink | USA | St. Louis | 7,135,000 | 19,018 | 74.0 km (46.0 mi) | 857 | 1993 | 37 | 2 | 2006 |
| Lynx Rapid Transit Services | USA | Charlotte, North Carolina | 6,528,600 | 21,600 | 30.4 km (18.9 mi) | 1,228 | 2007 | 15 | 1 | 2018 |
| SacRT light rail | USA | Sacramento, California | 6,932,300 | 19,520 | 69.0 km (42.9 mi) | 858 | 1987 | 53 | 3 | 2015 |
| Streetcars in New Orleans | USA | New Orleans | 3,535,600 | 9,190 | 35.9 km (22.3 mi) | 843 | 1835 | streetcar-like surface stops | 4 | 2013 |
| VTA light rail | USA | San Jose, California | 4,914,100 | 15,800 | 67.9 km (42.2 mi) | 1,121 | 1987 | 62 | 3 | 2005 |
| Baltimore Light RailLink | USA | Baltimore | 5,015,100 | 15,200 | 53.1 km (33.0 mi) | 558 | 1992 | 33 | 3 | 1997 |
| Ion rapid transit | CAN | Kitchener and Waterloo | 5,654,810 | | 19.3 km (12.0 mi) | n/a | 2019 | 19 | 1 | n/a |
| The T: Pittsburgh Light Rail | USA | Pittsburgh | 3,417,100 | | 42.2 km (26.2 mi) | 1,057 | 1984 | 53 | 3 | 2012 |
| San Francisco cable car system | USA | San Francisco | 5,719,900 | 14,900 | 8.4 km (5.2 mi) | 3,021 | 1878 | streetcar-like surface stops | 3 | 1952 |
| Portland Streetcar | USA | Portland | 2,373,341 | 8,339 | 11.83 km (7.35 mi) | 2,723 | 2001 | 76 | 2 | 2012 |
| Buffalo Metro Rail | USA | Buffalo, New York | 2,433,300 | 6,600 | 10.3 km (6.4 mi) | 2,500 | 1985 | 14 | 1 | n/a |
| SPRINTER | USA | Oceanside, California | 1,362,600 | 5,600 | 35 km (22 mi) | 341 | 2008 | 15 | 1 | n/a |
| Seattle Streetcar | USA | Seattle | 1,326,500 | 4,200 | 6.1 km (3.8 mi) | 1,447 | 2007 | 17 | 2 | 2016 |
| RTA Rapid Transit: Blue, Green, and Waterfront Lines | USA | Cleveland | 661,500 | 2,500 | 24.6 km (15.3 mi) | 327 | 1913 | 34 | 2 | 1996 |
| Tide Light Rail | USA | Norfolk, Virginia | 771,500 | 2,500 | 11.9 km (7.4 mi) | 622 | 2011 | 11 | 1 | n/a |
| DC Streetcar | USA | Washington, D.C. | 721,700 | 2,200 | 3.9 km (2.4 mi) | | 2016 | 8 | 1 | 2016 |
| TECO Line Streetcars | USA | Tampa, Florida | 1,428,700 | | 4.3 km (2.7 mi) | 630 | 2002 | 11 | 1 | 2010 |
| Sun Link | USA | Tucson, Arizona | 1,724,900 | 5,800 | 6.3 km (3.9 mi) | 1,026 | 2014 | 22 | 1 | n/a |
| The Hop | USA | Milwaukee, Wisconsin | 760,321 | – | 3.4 km (2.1 mi) | | 2018 | 18 | 1 | 2018 |
| El Paso Streetcar | USA | El Paso, Texas | 130,600 | 600 | 7.7 km (4.8 mi) | | 2018 | 27 | 2 | 2018 |
| Atlanta Streetcar | USA | Atlanta, Georgia | 184,500 | 600 | 4.3 km (2.7 mi) | 111 | 2014 | 12 | 1 | n/a |
| MATA Trolleys | USA | Memphis, Tennessee | 365,400 | 800 | 10.1 km (6.3 mi) | 0 | 1993 | 25 | 3 | 2004 |

## Excluded systems

The following systems have been excluded from the ridership table above (generally because the system's ridership statistics are not tracked by APTA):
* Galveston Island Trolley (Galveston, TX)
* Kenosha Streetcars (Kenosha, WI)
* Metro Streetcar (Little Rock, AR)
* River Street Streetcar (Savannah, GA)