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List of light-rail transit systems
The following is a list of cities that have tram / light-rail systems.
See also: List of metro systems , List of cities with trolleybuses
Sapporo - Sapporo City Transit Authority (tramway)
Hakodate - Hakodate City Transit Authority (tramway)
Tokyo - Toden Arakawa Line (tramway), Tokyu Setagaya Line (tramway consist of private right of way) operated by Tokyo Kyuko Electric Railway
Toyohashi - Toyohashi City Line (tramway) operated by Toyohashi Railway
Gifu - Gifu City Line (tramway), Mino Town Line (Rural Tram ) operated by Nagoya Railway
Toyama - Toyama City Line (tramway) operated by Toyama Regional Railway
Takaoka - Manyou Line Coporation (tramway)
Fukui - Fukui Railway (Interurban )
Otsu - Keishin Line (Interurban )
Kyoto - Keifuku Electric Railway (tramway mainly consist of private right of way)
Osaka - Hankai Electric Railway (tramway)
Okayama - Okayama Electric Railway (tramway)
Hiroshima - (tramway with LRV's)
Kochi - Tosa Electric Railway (tramway)
Kitakyushu - (tramway consist of private right of way)
Nagasaki - Nagasaki Electric Railway (tramway)
Kumamoto - Kumamoto City Transit Authority
Kagoshima - Kagoshima City Transit Authority (tramway)
Manila - Light Railway Transit (LRT), Baclaran to Monumento ; Metro Railway Transit 1 (MRT1), Taft Avenue to North Avenue; Metro Railway Transit 2 (MRT2), Marikina City to Recto
Grenoble , Lyon , Marseille , Montpellier , Nantes , Orléans , Paris , Rouen , Saint-Etienne , Strasbourg , Bordeaux
Ile-de-France - T1 between Saint Denis and Bobigny ; T2 between La Defense and Issy Plaine
Lille to Roubaix to Tourcoing
Nancy - 'tram on tyres' guided bus
Clermont-Ferrand (under construction)
Baden-Baden , Berlin , Bielefeld , Bochum , Bonn , Cologne
Dortmund , Duisburg , Dusseldorf , Essen ,
Frankfurt am Main , Frankfurt Transit
Freiburg im Breisgau , Gelsenkirchen , Hanover , Hamburg , Herne
Karlsruhe , Karlsruhe Transit
Mannheim , Mülheim an der Ruhr , Oberhausen
Munich , Saarbrücken , ~50 others [2]
(see also
Transportation in the Netherlands )
Baltimore, Maryland - Light Rail system run by the Maryland Transit Administration
Jersey City , Bayonne , and Hoboken New Jersey - New Jersey Transit (Hudson-Bergen Light Rail )
Boston, Massachusetts - The MBTA's Green Line
Buffalo, New York - Niagara Frontier Transportation Authority Metro Rail
Camden -Trenton, New Jersey - New Jersey Transit River LINE
Cleveland, Ohio - Cleveland Rapid Transit (Blue and Green Lines)
Dallas, Texas - Dallas Area Rapid Transit , McKinney Avenue Transit Authority , (see also Tandy Center Subway )
Denver, Colorado - Light rail run by the Regional Transportation District [5]
Detroit, Michigan - Detroit Downtown Trolley
Galveston, Texas - Island Transit
Houston, Texas - METRORail , operated by METRO
Kenosha, Wisconsin - Kenosha Transit
Los Angeles, California - Los Angeles County Metropolitan Transportation Authority [6]
Memphis, Tennessee - Memphis Area Transit Authority
Minneapolis, Minnesota - Hiawatha Line , operated by the Metropolitan Council /Metro Transit
New Orleans, Louisiana - St. Charles Avenue Streetcar , operated by the Regional Transit Authority
Newark, New Jersey - Newark City Subway , New Jersey Transit
Philadelphia, Pennsylvania - Southeastern Pennsylvania Transportation Authority
Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania - Port Authority of Allegheny County
Portland, Oregon - Metropolitan Area Express , operated by TriMet ; Portland Streetcar operated by City of Portland
Sacramento, California - Sacramento Regional Transit District
Saint Louis, Missouri - Metrolink , operated by the Bi-State Development Agency
Salt Lake City, Utah - TRAX operated by the Utah Transit Authority
San Diego, California - Light rail operated by the Metropolitan Transit System [7]
San Francisco, California - Muni Metro , operated by San Francisco Municipal Railway
San Jose, California - Santa Clara Valley Transportation Authority
Seattle, Washington - Sound Transit [8]
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