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r/transit

A subreddit for discussion on transit systems and transportation all over the world: including buses, trains, trams, streetcars, bicycles, etc. Also relevant are transportation planning, transportation engineering, and design. Founded 2008 · 138.2K members

138K members. The best post we have captured here reached 10K upvotes, which works out to 72 per 1,000 members.

72peak upvotes per 1,000 members
138Kmembers
10Kbest post
590most comments
402posts we track

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What actually lands here

The mix of post types among everything we have captured. Posting a link where almost nothing but images lands is wasted effort, and this is the fastest way to see it.

31% 27% 16% 12%
Image 31% Link 27% Video 16% Gallery 12% Text 7% Question 6%

The topics it labels

Flairs are the community's own categories, and the closest thing a subreddit has to telling you what it wants.

Photos / Videos 121 News 48 Discussion 47 Other 43 System Expansion 39 Questions 37 Memes 30 Policy 21 Rant 6

What the ceiling looks like

The biggest posts we have captured here. Links go to the original on Reddit.

The Elizabeth line in London moves 800,000 people daily. No highway at its busiest point moves that many people daily in North America.

↑ 10K 💬 499 image 2025

Majorie Taylor Greene (R) remarks at how great AMTRAK is now that flight delays from the government shut down forced her to take the train

↑ 5.4K 💬 289 image 2025

Tim Walz is THE transit candidate

↑ 5.2K 💬 221 image 2024

California crowd savagely boos Trump transportation secretary

↑ 5.1K 💬 73 link 2025

Map of Chongqing's metro system in 3D

↑ 5.1K 💬 124 video 2026

Moscow Metro turned 90 recently. Here are some of its stations

↑ 4.9K 💬 428 gallery 2025

Do you guys remember this epic ratio?

↑ 4.7K 💬 53 image 2025

Hehe

↑ 4.6K 💬 225 image 2024

High speed rail needed in North America

↑ 4.2K 💬 133 image 2024

A meme I thought of

↑ 4.1K 💬 52 image 2025

Communities its size

Within four times the member count either way, so the comparison is fair. Sorted by upside.

r/transit, in numbers

Answered from the posts ViralHunt holds from this community, not from Reddit's own about page.

What is r/transit?
r/transit describes itself this way: A subreddit for discussion on transit systems and transportation all over the world: including buses, trains, trams, streetcars, bicycles, etc. Also relevant are transportation planning, transportation engineering, and design. It was founded in 2008 and has 138.2K members.
How many members does r/transit have?
r/transit has about 138K members. ViralHunt has tracked 402 of its posts; the biggest reached 10K upvotes, which is 72 per 1,000 members.
What is the most viral post on r/transit?
"The Elizabeth line in London moves 800,000 people daily. No highway at its busiest point moves that many people daily in North America." reached 10K upvotes and 499 comments in 2025, the highest score among the posts we hold from r/transit.
What subreddits are similar to r/transit?
Communities of a comparable size we track: r/Leakednews, r/stevehofstetter, r/topofreddit, r/PopCultureV2, r/SpaceXBets, r/interestingnewsworld.
What kind of posts do best on r/transit?
Of the posts we hold, 31% are image posts and 27% are link posts.
When is the best time to post on r/transit?
Across 402 timestamped posts we hold, the slots whose posts averaged the highest score are Wednesday at 13:00 UTC (2.5K avg upvotes), Monday at 20:00 UTC (2.3K avg upvotes), Thursday at 07:00 UTC (2.3K avg upvotes). The busiest day is Thursday. For Reddit as a whole, see the best time to post on Reddit page.
How many upvotes does a post need to reach the top of r/transit?
The 20th-best post we hold from r/transit has 3.4K upvotes, so that is roughly the bar for the top twenty. We captured 64 posts from it in the last 30 days.

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Every figure here is what ViralHunt has captured from r/transit, not everything the community has ever posted. We deliberately do not publish an average score: our sample is weighted toward a community's best posts, so an average would be flattering and wrong. Peak per 1,000 members is computed the same way for every community listed. See how we measure.