A recent study from the luxury vacation home rental platform Wander ranked Boston as the best U.S. city for public transportation for travelers, even ahead of New York City’s vaunted subway system.

Boston earned that designation for having the highest ratio of public transit stations to residents, the company said: 41.45 per 100,000 people.

The MBTA is certainly not the largest nor most used transit network in the country, by a long shot. New York City’s MTA is in a class of its own, transporting 3.7 million people on the subway and 1.3 million by bus on weekdays last year.

New York City has 472 subway stations serving its 8.5 million residents, or about 5.5 per 100,000 people.

The MBTA has 125 stops across the Red, Orange, Green and Blue lines, which stretch north, south and ea

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