Advertisement
Advertisement
rapid transit
noun as in public transportation system
Example Sentences
Investments would also be made to pedestrianize streets and improve rail and bus rapid transit in the city center, to make these options more accessible to people who would otherwise drive.
So even our express lane network becomes almost a bus rapid transit system for bus systems and our carpooling.
He launched a bus rapid transit system connecting downtown Silver Spring and Burtonsville.
Building a bus rapid transit system also would have required widening roads and running buses on bridges over streams and wetlands, Engels said.
In Georgia, MARTA (the Metropolitan Atlantic Rapid Transit Authority) built a huge solar canopy at its bus depot in Decatur.
Consider the October 2013 strike by unionized Bay Area Rapid Transit employees in California.
This platform used to be part of the Interborough Rapid Transit, or IRT.
So many of the conductors were Irish immigrants that the IRT was colloquially called the “Irish Rapid Transit.”
The news of Sarah's rapid transit had hardly cost Nannie the lifting of an eyebrow.
There is chance for work in this direction, for in spite of rapid transit some must live in the center of things.
New York City does not seem to have fully outgrown this slow street travel, but elsewhere more rapid transit is the rule.
Tunnels connect the different railway lines, in order to assist the rapid transit of through trains.
This applies also to the more rapid transit provided by balloons, automobiles, bicycles, etc.
Advertisement
From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.
Advertisement
Advertisement
Advertisement
Browse