Quick visual presentation on the size comparison of the number of passengers that the MTA of NY moves per year.

1. How Big is the MTA Really?
(NYC Subways, Railroads and Buses)
2015

2. Amtrak vs DC Transit
 Let us first understand the size of other public
transportation entities for the amount of passengers they
carry PER YEAR.
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30 Million Passengers
Per Year
Amtrak
Washington DC Transit
270 Million Passengers
Per Year

3. Top 7 US Public Transport System
 Even combining those two entities: they are still too small to even make a
comparison to the MTA. Let us add some more Transit Systems throughout
the United States (Top 7).
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4. Top 7 vs Amtrack
 Getting Closer…. But we still need more.
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Amtrak
Top US 7 Public Transport Systems
30 Million
1,058 Million Passengers

5. Top 10 World Wide Airlines
 Let us now add the top 10 largest World Wide Airlines by passengers:
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Amtrak
30 Million

6. Compared to the MTA
 Now that we have a better understanding of how big the largest US transit
systems are well as the largest world wide airliners, we can now compare
them to the MTA.
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Amtrak
7 Largest US
Transport Systems
30 Million
2,700 Million
10 Largest World
Wide Airlines
MTA
1,058 Million 1,070 Million

7. Overall comparison
 The MTA still moves over 25% more passengers than the Largest 10 world
wide airlines and Largest 7 US Transit system COMBINED.
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30 Million
2,700 Million
10 Largest World Wide
Airlines & 7 Largest US
Transport Systems
MTA
30 Million
Amtrak
2,128 Million

8. Does not even include …
 And that does not even include all the cars, buses, trucks that travel
through the 7 MTA Bridges and 2 Tunnels!
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