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Nordpil 2010. Ticket prices by UBS (Prices and Earnings , 2009, PDF , p. 20). Gauge, voltage, train width, and non-numerical data by Mike Rohde. Cities found their way into the list according to Metrobits' criteria .
# 1 Tokyo 3,102 million 2011 left Metro Yurikamome Waterfront line, rubber-tyred Yurikamome line Marunouchi, Mita, Namboku, Yurakucho, Yurikamome lines yes yes 2 Seoul 2,518 million 2012 right Subway lines 2 and 9, planned for all lines by 2010 yes yes 3 Beijing 2,460 million 2012 right Subway PGDs on lines 5, 13. PSDs on lines 8, 10 yes all lines 4 Moscow 2,389 million 2011 right Metro lines 3, 5 since 2009 5 Shanghai 2,276 million 2012 right Metro newer line 4 stations and refitted line 1 stations yes 6 Guangzhou 1,825 million 2012 right Metro APM line (underground people mover) Zhujiang people mover yes yes yes 7 New York 1,655 million 2012 right Subway yes 8 Mexico City 1,609 million 2012 right Metro yes 9 Paris 1,524 million 2011 right (metro), left (RER) Métro lines 1, 14, rubber-tyred lines 1, 4, 6, 11, 14 lines 1, 13 (part), 14 lines 1, 2, 5, 9 lines 1, 2, 5, 7bis, 9, 14 10 Hong Kong 1,444 million 2012 left MTR Disneyland Resort Line SI, WI lines, planned all underground stations yes yes 11 London 1,171 million 2011 left Underground Docklands Light Rail Jubilee Line extension Circle, District, Hammersmith & City and Metropolitan lines Metropolitan Line, DLR 12 Sao Paulo 877 million 2012 right Metrô line 4 lines 2, 3, 4 (since 2010) all metro lines and regional rail lines 4, 5 13 Cairo 837 million 2010 left Metro 5 stations 14 Osaka 836 million 2010 left Subway Nanko Port Town Line, rubber-tyred Nanko Port Town Line all stations on the Nanko Port Town Line yes 15 Singapore 794 million 2011 left MRT North-East Line, Circle Line, Downtown Line, and the 3 rubber-tyred LRT lines LRT lines yes yes yes 16 Saint Petersburg 786 million 2011 right Metro windowless steel doors in ten stations 17 Taipei 652 million 2012 right MRT Wenshan (Muzha) VAL line Line 1 PGDs in the busier MRT stations, PSDs in all VAL stations yes yes 18 Santiago 640 million 2011 right Metro yes yes 19 Madrid 635 million 2011 left Metro tests in 2010, plans for 2011 yes yes 20 Delhi 606 million 2011 left Metro Line 5, Airport Metro Express yes yes 21 Vienna 534 million 2010 right U-Bahn yes yes 22 Prague 530 million 2011 right Metro yes 23 Kiev 519 million 2011 right Metro 24 Berlin 505 million 2011 right U-Bahn yes 25 Caracas 485 million 2009 Metro yes 26 Tehran 480 million 2011 Metro yes 27 Nagoya 427 million 2008 left Subway Tobu Kyuryo maglev line Tobu Kyuryo maglev line yes yes 28 Barcelona 389 million 2011 right Metro lines L9, L10, L11 lines L9, L10, L11 yes yes 29 Munich 360 million 2010 right U-Bahn yes 30 Manila 346 million 2008 right MRT yes yes 31 Nanjing 344 million 2011 right Metro Line 2 yes yes 32 Athens 342 million 2008 right Metro yes yes 33 Rome 331 million 2008 left Metropolitana yes yes 34 Milan 328 million 2007 right Metropolitana line M5 line M5 yes yes 35 Busan 320 million 2012 right Subway Line 4 Line 4 line 3 36 Stockholm 309 million 2011 left Tunnelbana 37 Buenos Aires 308 million 2011 left Subte yes 38 Budapest 302 million 2011 right Metro 39 Minsk 281 million 2012 right Metro 40 Toronto 278 million 2006 right Subway yes 41 Lyon 257 million 2009 left Métro line D/Maggaly, rubber-tyred, no PSDs yes 42 Kharkov 250 million 2011 right Metro 43 Bangkok 245 million 2011 left Skytrain, MRT Green line Green line, Blue line yes 44 Chicago 222 million 2011 right "L" yes 45 Montreal 219 million 2006 right Metro yes 46 Washington 218 million 2012 right Metrorail yes 47 Rio de Janeiro 212 million 2010 right Metrô yes 48 Sapporo 209 million 2008 left Subway yes yes 49 Hamburg 199 million 2011 right U-Bahn DT5 type train sets DT5 type train sets 50 Yokohama 198 million 2008 left Subway Kanazawa Seaside line, LRT, rubber-tyred Kanazawa Seaside LRT Kanazawa Seaside LRT line yes 51 Baku 183 million 2011 right Metro 52 Lisbon 183 million 2010 left Metro yes 53 Kolkata 173 million 2009 right Metro Railway 54 Bucharest 171 million 2011 right Metro 55 Medellin 170 million 2011 Metro 56 Boston 147 million 2010 right The T yes 57 Warsaw 140 million 2011 right Metro 58 Monterrey 138 million 2009 right Metro yes 59 Brussels 133 million 2009 right (left on lines 1 and 6 between Midi and Roi Baudouin) Métro line 1 60 Shenzhen 132 million 2009 right Metro yes yes yes 61 Daegu 127 million 2012 Subway lines 1, 2 62 Kyoto 126 million 2008 left Subway Tozai line yes 63 Fukuoka 124 million 2007 left Subway yes yes 64 Kobe 121 million 2008 left Subway Port Liner and Rokko Liner, rubber-tyred Port Liner and Rokko Liner Port Liner and Rokko Liner yes 65 Vancouver 120 million 2011 right SkyTrain Skytrain, LIM technology, currently the world's longest automated system yes yes 66 Nuremberg 118 million 2011 right U-Bahn lines U2, U3, no PSDs, sharing tracks with driver-operated trains yes 67 Ankara 113 million 2007 right Metro metro line yes yes 68 San Francisco 111 million 2012 right BART yes Wide sliding doors between cars since the 1970s 69 Dubai 109 million 2012 right Metro metro metro, monorail yes yes 70 Kuala Lumpur 109 million 2008 left LRT, Monorail LRT KLIA line to airport, Kelana Jaya line's underground stations yes 71 Philadelphia 107 million 2011 right Subway yes 72 Chengdu 103 million 2012 right Metro yes yes 73 Toulouse 103 million 2011 right Métro VAL yes VAL yes 74 Lille 96 million 2009 right Métro VAL yes VAL, all stations yes 75 Bilbao 90 million 2011 left Metro yes yes 76 Incheon 89 million 2012 Subway yes 77 Tbilisi 88 million 2008 right Metro 78 Rotterdam 87 million 2008 right Metro 79 Amsterdam 85 million 2009 right Metro M5 type train sets M5 type train sets 80 Istanbul 78 million 2011 right Metro Seyrantepe station on line M2 some lines some lines 81 Novosibirsk 76 million 2011 right Metro 82 Oslo 76 million 2010 right T-Bane yes 83 Marseille 75 million 2011 right Métro yes 84 Wuhan 73 million 2011 right Metro 85 Tashkent 65 million 2010 right Metro 86 Tianjin 64 million 2010 right Metro platform gate doors yes 87 Izmir 63 million 2011 Metro 88 Helsinki 62 million 2011 right Metro yes 89 Xian 59 million 2012 Metro yes 90 Sendai 58 million 2008 left Subway yes 91 Brasilia 55 million 2009 right Metrô 92 Copenhagen 54 million 2011 right Metro all metro lines all underground stations all metro and S-Tog trains yes 93 Kaohsiung 52 million 2012 MRT MRT 94 Rennes 47 million 2011 right Métro VAL yes VAL yes 95 Los Angeles 46 million 2011 right Metro Rail yes 96 Dalian 44 million 2012 right Metro 97 Daejeon 38 million 2011 Subway yes 98 Newcastle 38 million 2011 left Tyne & Wear Metro 99 Yekaterinburg 38 million 2011 right Metro 100 Pyongyang 36 million 2009 Metro 101 Naples 35 million 2011 left Metropolitana 102 Atlanta 34 million 2007 right MARTA yes 103 Turin 33 million 2011 right Metropolitana VAL yes VAL yes yes 104 Santo Domingo 29 million 2011 Metro yes 105 Sofia 29 million 2009 right Metro 106 Kazan 27 million 2012 right Metro 107 Nizhny Novgorod 27 million 2010 right Metro 108 Valencia 21 million 2010 Metro 109 Baltimore 18 million 2011 right Metro Subway yes 110 Gwangju 18 million 2011 Subway yes 111 Hiroshima 18 million 2005 left Monorail yes 112 Miami 18 million 2011 right Metrorail downtown people mover, rubber-tyred Downtown people mover yes 113 Yerevan 17 million 2011 right Metro 114 Samara 16 million 2011 right Metro 115 Glasgow 13 million 2011 left Subway 116 San Juan 11 million 2011 Tren Urbano 117 Dnepropetrovsk 9 million 2010 Metro 118 Almaty 7 million 2012 Metro 119 Cleveland 6 million 2011 right Rapid Transit 120 Adana Metro 121 Algiers Metro yes yes 122 Antwerp Premetro 123 Bangalore Metro 124 Belo Horizonte right Metrô 125 Bielefeld right Stadtbahn 126 Bochum right Stadtbahn 127 Bonn right Stadtbahn 128 Brescia Metro metro 129 Buffalo right Metro Rail 130 Bursa Bursaray 131 Catania right Metropolitana 132 Changchun right LRT 133 Changsha Metro 134 Charleroi Métro Léger 135 Chennai MRTS 136 Chiba left Monorail 137 Chongqing right Monorail The three underground stations (Daping, Linjiangmen, and Jiaochangkou) have PSDs yes yes 138 Cologne right Stadtbahn new light rail trains only yes 139 Detroit right People Mover downtown people mover, LIM technology yes 140 Dongguan Metro 141 Dortmund right Stadtbahn H-Bahn yes 142 Duesseldorf right Stadtbahn yes 143 Duisburg right Stadtbahn yes 144 Edmonton right Light Rail 145 Esfahan Urban railway 146 Essen right Stadtbahn yes 147 Frankfurt right U-Bahn yes 148 Fuzhou Metro 149 Gelsenkirchen right Stadtbahn 150 Genoa right Metropolitana yes 151 Guadalajara right Metro 152 Haifa Carmelit 153 Hangzhou Metro 154 Hanover right Stadtbahn yes 155 Harbin Subway 156 Jacksonville right Skyway downtown monorail people mover 157 Jaipur Metrorail 158 Kamakura left Monorail 159 Kitakyushu left Monorail yes 160 Kryvyi Rih Metrotram 161 Kunming Metro yes 162 Las Vegas right Monorail monorail yes 163 Lausanne Metro line m2 line m2 Line m2 yes 164 Lima Tren Urbano 165 Ludwigshafen right Stadtbahn 166 Malaga Metro 167 Maracaibo Metro yes 168 Mashhad Urban railway 169 Mecca right Metro yes yes yes 170 Muelheim right Stadtbahn 171 Mumbai Suburban Railway 172 Naha left Monorail 173 Nanchang Rail Transit 174 Nanning Metro 175 Newark right Light Rail 176 Ningbo Metro Line 1 177 Oporto right Metro yes yes 178 Palma de Mallorca Metro 179 Panama City Metro 180 Perugia Minimetro Minimetro 181 Pittsburgh right T 182 Porto Alegre right Metro 183 Poznan Fast Tram 184 Qingdao Metro 185 Recife right Metrô 186 Rouen Métro 187 Saint Louis right Metrolink 188 Salvador Metrô yes 189 Seattle right Light Rail yes 190 Seville Metro Line 1 191 Shenyang right Metro yes 192 Shiraz Metro 193 Stuttgart right Stadtbahn yes yes 194 Suzhou right Subway yes 195 Sydney left Cityrail yes 196 Tabriz Metro 197 Tama left Monorail yes 198 The Hague right RandstadRail 199 Valencia right Metro yes yes 200 Valparaiso right Metro 201 Volgograd Metro 202 Wuppertal right Schwebebahn 203 Wuxi Metro 204 Zhengzhou Metro
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