California light rail battle: What city has the best? (transit, trolley)

[clean_polo]

Los Angeles:
http://teccm.com/content/images/sm_gold2line.jpg (broken link)
http://teccm.com/content/images/sm_gold2line.jpg (broken link)

San Diego:

http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedi...olley_1065.jpg

San Francisco:

http://blogs.sfweekly.com/thesnitch/njudah500.jpg

Sacramento:
http://images.nycsubway.org/logo/title-sac.jpg (broken link)
http://images.nycsubway.org/logo/title-sac.jpg (broken link)

San Jose:

http://farm4.static.flickr.com/3560/...2d26567c48.jpg

[matt345]

Funny thing is, Muni probably runs more 1-car trains than any other light rail system in California, yet San Francisco is the city that could most easily fill light rail trains 3 or more cars long.

[rah]

average weekday ridership, quarter 4, 2009:

San Francisco - 162,500
Los Angeles - 134,500
San Diego - 91,200
Sacramento - 55,800
San Jose - 31,500

[DANNYY]

Originally Posted by rah

average weekday ridership, quarter 4, 2009:

San Francisco - 162,500
Los Angeles - 134,500
San Diego - 91,200
Sacramento - 55,800
San Jose - 31,500

That's the only surprise from the list.

[coo77]

Originally Posted by rah

average weekday ridership, quarter 4, 2009:

San Francisco - 162,500
Los Angeles - 134,500
San Diego - 91,200
Sacramento - 55,800
San Jose - 31,500

L.A. Metro is now averaging about 150,000 as the Gold Line extension into East L.A. is now more established.

[BKmachine]

Toss up between BART and LA metrorail

[AcroJimmy2]

BART is not light rail, it is heavy rail. It has a much higher capacity than any of the other systems (and a much higher ridership)

MUNI is what should have been the option. I would choose MUNI and the Trolley overall...

[kcee510]

I choose MUNI only because you get you see old asian women put the smack down on


YouTube - Fight on SF Muni Bus in Chinatown (annotated)

[potato head8]

You do not mess with the wrath of an old Asian lady.

[DANNYY]

Originally Posted by potato head8

You do not mess with the wrath of an old Asian lady.

ESPECIALLY on the road!