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This page seeks to list or refer our readers to all the various LRT systems currently in operation.

if you know of an LRT system not listed here, or not adequately referenced by the links provided, please contact us with the relevant information.


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Rail Transit Systems
in Operation

(Note: Links to information and data for individual systems are indexed below: USA ... Canada ... Mexico ... Worldwide.)
The Public Transport Industry Issues section has been moved to a separate page.

USA – SYSTEMS

Electric Light Rail Transit (LRT)
(Interurban & Streetcar)

Modern & Heritage Urban & Interurban Transit Systems
(See below for novelty heritage trolley systems)


Baltimore (rapid LRT)
Boston (legacy surface electric railway upgraded to modern LRT)
Buffalo (modern semi-metro LRT)
Charlotte (modern interurban LRT, heritage streetcar)
Cleveland (legacy surface electric railway upgraded to modern LRT)
Dallas (modern interurban LRT, heritage streetcar)
Denver (rapid interurban LRT)
Houston (rapid LRT)
Hudson-Bergen (rapid interurban LRT)
Kenosha (heritage streetcar)
Little Rock (heritage streetcar)
Los Angeles (rapid interurban LRT)
Memphis (currently heritage streetcar; modern LRT planned)
Minneapolis (interurban LRT in operation, streetcar proposed)
Newark (legacy surface electric railway upgraded to rapid LRT)
New Orleans (heritage streetcar)
Philadelphia (legacy surface electric railway upgraded to modern LRT, heritage streetcar)
Phoenix (rapid LRT)
Pittsburgh (legacy surface electric railway upgraded to rapid LRT)
Portland (rapid interurban LRT)
Sacramento (rapid interurban LRT in operation, heritage streetcar proposed)
St. Louis (rapid interurban LRT in operation, heritage streetcar proposed)
Salt Lake City (rapid interurban LRT in operation, heritage streetcar proposed)
San Diego (rapid interurban LRT in operation, heritage streetcar proposed)
San Francisco (legacy surface electric railway upgraded to rapid LRT, heritage streetcar)
San Jose (modern interurban LRT, heritage streetcar)
San Pedro (heritage streetcar)
Seattle (modern streetcar, modern semi-metro LRT)
Tacoma (modern LRT streetcar)

Tampa (currently heritage streetcar; modern LRT planned)


Internally Powered Light Railway

Austin (diesel mutliple-unit light railway)
Camden-Trenton (diesel mutliple-unit light railway)
Galveston (fuel-motor-powered heritage streetcar)
Oceanside-Escondido (diesel mutliple-unit light railway)
Savannah (heritage streetcar powered by fuel motor and supercapacitors)



Novelty Heritage Trolley Systems

Colorado Springs
Ft. Collins
Ft. Smith
Seattle
Tucson

CANADA – SYSTEMS

Light Rail Transit – Interurban & Streetcar

Calgary (rapid LRT)
Edmonton (rapid LRT)
Toronto (rapid LRT)

Internally Powered Light Railway

Ottawa

Metro and Regional Rail

Montreal
Toronto
Vancouver

MEXICO – SYSTEMS

Light Rail Transit

Guadalajara
Mexico City
Monterrey

Metro and Regional Rail

Mexico City

WORLDWIDE – SYSTEMS

A complete listing of world LRT and metro systems is located on the following LRTA website:
http://www.lrta.org/world/worldind.html

A list of new world systems since 1980 is also located on the LRTA website:
http://www.lrta.org/facts54.html

Argentina
Australia
Austria
Belarus
Belgium
Bosnia
Brazil
Britain (United Kingdom)
Bulgaria
Chile
China
Colombia
Croatia
Czech Republic
Denmark
Egypt
Estonia
Finland
France
Germany
Greece
Hungary
India
Iran
Ireland
Italy
Japan
Latvia
Malaysia
Netherlands
North Korea
Norway
Poland
Portugal
Romania
Russia
Serbia
Singapore
Slovakia
Spain
Sweden
Switzerland
Thailand
Turkey
Tunisia
Ukraine
United Kingdom
Venezuela



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