List of United States local bus agencies by ridership

The following is a list of the largest 30 local bus agencies in the United States, ranked by ridership. All figures are average weekday unlinked passenger trips and come from the American Public Transportation Association's Transit Ridership Report for the fourth quarter of 2014,^[1] unless otherwise noted.

Rank	Agency	Largest city served	Daily ridership	Notes
1	MTA	New York City	2,574,900
2	LACMTA	Los Angeles	1,079,100
3	CTA	Chicago	878,000
4	SEPTA	Philadelphia	556,500	[lower-alpha 1]
5	WMATA	Washington, D.C.	436,600
6	MBTA	Boston	377,600	[lower-alpha 1]
7	King County Metro	Seattle	325,300	[lower-alpha 1]
8	Muni	San Francisco	300,900	[lower-alpha 1]
9	MTA Maryland	Baltimore	283,300
10	Miami-Dade Transit	Miami	240,700
11	RTD	Denver	239,200
12	METRO	Houston	235,700
13	Metro Transit	Minneapolis	219,100
14	MARTA	Atlanta	204,900
15	TriMet	Portland	200,400
16	Port Authority	Pittsburgh	176,900
17	MTS	San Diego	176,300
18	RTC Transit	Las Vegas	167,800	Q4 2009[2]
19	OCTA	Orange County	146,600
20	Valley Metro	Phoenix	136,900
21	VIA	San Antonio	135,500
22	BCT	Fort Lauderdale	135,400
23	DART	Dallas	126,300
24	Capital Metro	Austin	118,100
25	MCTS	Milwaukee	116,100
26	LADOT	Los Angeles	106,900	Q4 2009[2]
27	Pace	Arlington Heights	106,500
28	VTA	San Jose	105,700
29	Metro	St. Louis	95,100
30	DDOT	Detroit	82,700

See also

• List of bus transit systems in the United States
• List of rapid transit systems
• List of light-rail transit systems
• List of United States light rail systems by ridership
• List of United States rapid transit systems by ridership
• List of suburban and commuter rail systems
• List of United States commuter rail systems by ridership

Notes

1. Includes electric trolley bus ridership

• Average weekday ridership values for New Jersey Transit and RTA (Cleveland) were not included in this report. Based on other provided information, both agencies would likely rank on this list.
• AC Transit (Oakland) was not included in this report. It carried 236,000 average weekday riders^[3] during Fiscal Year 2008-2009, which would likely place it tenth in this ranking.

References

1. "Public Transportation Ridership Report: Fourth Quarter & End-of-Year 2014" (PDF). American Public Transportation Association. 9 March 2015. Retrieved 17 May 2015.
2. "Transit Ridership Report, Fourth Quarter 2009" (PDF). American Public Transportation Association. 2 Mar 2010. Retrieved 21 Sep 2010.
3. "AC Transit: Facts and Figures". AC Transit. Retrieved 27 Dec 2010.