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Urban rail system
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rapid transit
Word definitions for rapid transit in dictionaries
WordNet
Word definitions in WordNet
n. an urban public transit system using underground or elevated trains [syn: mass rapid transit ]
Wiktionary
Word definitions in Wiktionary
n. A commuter rail system that combines aspects of an interurban railway with those of a subway, using a menagerie of pathways such as viaduct, tunnel, beam, cut and cover, trench, at grade, and others.
Wikipedia
Word definitions in Wikipedia
Rapid transit , also known as metro , subway , heavy rail , or underground , is a type of high-capacity public transport generally found in urban areas . Unlike buses or trams , rapid transit systems are electric railways that operate on an exclusive right-of-way ...
Usage examples of rapid transit.
I understand there was a survey of existing tunnels done in the 1920s for the proposed Interborough Rapid Transit system.
Before leaving the apartment she had downloaded everything on the new form-change problem and booked a rapid transit to the Carcon Colony.
Certainly not meant for rapid transit in atmosphere as a Kolnari warship of that size would be.
Certainly not meant for rapid transit in atmosphere as a Kolnari warship of that size woul^rbe.
Connecticut and augmenting her with five of our attack submarines from CTF 77, that submarine force can make a rapid transit up to the south of New Guinea.
She found the platform of the Staten Island Rapid Transit train, and took a train to Stapleton, then walked inland until she came to Bay Street.
Alex surfaced only once from his stupor, when a flickering sign drifted past him on one of the rapid transit corridors.