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Urban rail system
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rapid transit
Word definitions for rapid transit in dictionaries
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.
WordNet
Word definitions in WordNet
n. an urban public transit system using underground or elevated trains [syn: mass rapid transit ]
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.