Some 4.5 million riders daily use New York's subways on an average weekday, for a total of about 1.4 billion rides a year, according to the Metropolitan Transportation Authority (MTA), which operates the city's 26 subway and bus routes. The subway system has about 6,200 subway cars operating through 468 stations, which is only 35 fewer stations than the combined total of all other subway systems in the country.

The MTA has about 4,500 buses that carry about 2.4 million riders a day, or about 740 million people a year over 207 local and 36 express bus routes, according to the agency.