How does New Yorks subway ridership stack up against other cities?
New York ties for fourth on a chart provided by the MTA comparing the subway ridership of 10 world cities. Every set of statistics I could obtain supported the MTA’s information. In that table, New York was said to have had 1.4 billion riders in 2002, placing the city behind no. 1 Moscow, with 3.3 billion, no. 2 Tokyo, which had 2.6 billion riders, no. 3 Seoul, South Korea, which had 2.2 billion riders, and Mexico City, which also had 1.4 billion riders. Other cities on the list include Paris; London; Osaka, Japan; St. Petersburg, Russia, and Hong Kong.
