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Answer for the clue "Urban rail system ", 13 letters:
rapid transit

Word definitions for rapid transit in dictionaries

Wikipedia Word definitions in Wikipedia
A rapid transit is a public transport system in an urban area with high capacity, high frequency not needing timetables, is fast and is segregated from other traffic. Rapid transit may also refer to: Bus rapid transit , a term applied to a variety of public ...

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.

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.