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AT&T station (The Sports Complex Station) in Philadelphia was specifically built to handle the crush of sports and event attendees. The station can load 8 trains (on two seperate levels) simulteneously after events and can handle up to 30K passengers in an hour at peak.
Today it runs between 12-18K an hour directly after Phillies and Eagles games, though is generally (non event) little used it basically serves to load and unload event attendees
I think I read it has the single highest load capacity of any subway station for post event boardings
In Chicago, the EL is a tail of two cities, the 3 main lines that run through the North Side are the busiest by a long shot, all going through vibrant, healthy neighborhoods; and the most under performing lines all run through some of the worst neighborhoods in the city, many of which have had massive population loss over the last few decades.
Red Line - ~270,000 daily riders
Blue Line - ~187,000 daily riders
Brown Line - ~114,000 daily riders
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Green Line - ~71,000
Pink Line - ~34,000
The Orange Line which runs through mostly working class, stable South Side neighborhoods has a ridership of 63,000 daily riders.
The Yellow Line is basically a connection between Skokie (suburb) and the rest of the EL system, and the Purple Line is a weekday express line that goes to Evanston and Wilmette, its daily ridership is 45,000 daily riders, most of them would be on the Red Line if the Purple line was not created.
The Brown Line has seen a massive overhaul during the past few years, all stations were renovated and platforms were extended to accommodate 2 additional cars.
Ridership on the Red, Blue, Brown lines will continue to grow at a pretty good clip, while I expect the Green and Pink lines to stay flat.
Greater Greater Washington just did a run down of the 9 busiest station's on the D.C. metro system today. They do morning (AM), midday, and evening (PM) entry and exit numbers with analysis.
In Chicago, the EL is a tail of two cities, the 3 main lines that run through the North Side are the busiest by a long shot, all going through vibrant, healthy neighborhoods; and the most under performing lines all run through some of the worst neighborhoods in the city, many of which have had massive population loss over the last few decades.
Here's a map of subway line ridership in NYC through the years. You can watch South Bronx ridership fall in the 70s (mainly the eastern branch of the green and red lines in the Bronx)
I don't live in the Bay Area anymore, but the busiest line for BART is Millbrae-Pittsburg, and the busiest station is Embarcadero (about ~43K daily ridership).
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I don't live in the Bay Area anymore, but the busiest line for BART is Millbrae-Pittsburg, and the busiest station is Embarcadero (about ~43K daily ridership).
That figure most likely would not count MUNI, though, as MUNI doesn't count exits, only boardings.
well I don't live in the US, but in Paris (where I currently live), the busiest line is the RER A (more than 1M people per day), and the busiest station is Châtelet-Les Halles, which is also the busiest station in the world (it is the intersection of 5 metro lines and 4 RER lines, that helps).
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