Quote Originally Posted by chicagoforlife View Post
The El has about 750,000 passengers a day, I'm sure bosses and execs ride the L. The bus system has about 1 million passengers a day, and the reason why the bus system has higher ridership is because it serves more areas than the L does.
Per most recent data available, here are daily ridership stats for top 3 systems of rail and bus in the U.S.



Rail-
NYC MTA subway [[not including PATH or SIRT)- 8.7333 million
DC Metro- 855.3 thousand
Chicago L- 734.9 thousand

Bus-
NYC NYCT bus [[not including MTA bus, mostly in Queens)- 2.605 million
LA MTA bus- 1.138.3 million
Chicago CTA bus- 918.3 thousand