How to Use light-rail in a Sentence

light-rail

noun

• The driver told me to go to the end of the line, then take the light-rail.
  — Andrew Leland, The New Yorker, 8 July 2023
• The Bronco hit the utility pole shortly thereafter and rolled over at the light-rail station.
  — The Oregonian/oregonlive Public Safety Team, oregonlive, 6 July 2023
• Some of the trails also will run near three future Purple Line light-rail stations in Maryland.
  — Luz Lazo, Washington Post, 28 June 2023
• On the light-rail platform, office workers and transit fans had their cellphones pointed at the track as the trains approached.
  — Rachel Uranga, Los Angeles Times, 16 June 2023
• Those incidents included blocking a bus in a narrow street and stopping just in front of a light-rail train’s path.
  — Chloe Taylor, Fortune, 10 July 2023
• The Purple Line, a light-rail system with stops in Maryland, will be operating by 2026 with a stop in Greenbelt.
  — Brian Witte, Baltimore Sun, 8 Mar. 2023
• In 2004, Miami Beach voters endorsed a light-rail system over the MacArthur, but the project never advanced.
  — Aaron Leibowitz, Miami Herald, 21 Feb. 2024
• The four-stop, subterranean light-rail line was three years behind schedule and $335 million over budget.
  — Rachel Uranga, Los Angeles Times, 16 June 2023
• Lawmakers made changes to the bill, which boosts funding for highways and bars any spending on light-rail expansion.
  — Arizona Republic, The Arizona Republic, 28 May 2024
• Townhouses, warehouses and a light-rail station took their place.
  — Andrew J. Campa, Los Angeles Times, 21 Apr. 2024
• And the city is following through with plans for a light-rail system, which could eventually include seven lines and carry hundreds of thousands of passengers.
  — Seth Kaplan, Foreign Affairs, 20 Aug. 2014
• Even with local officials making a tremendous push ahead of the 2028 Olympics to expand the light-rail system and add bus lanes and bike paths, the region must do far more to reshape its car-centric urban infrastructure.
  — Sammy Roth, Los Angeles Times, 26 Oct. 2023
• While the effectiveness of this trick varies by city or locale—some places just aren’t as well connected as others—you’ll generally be able to find a local bus, train, metro, light-rail line, ferry or bike-share service.
  — Kaeli Conforti, Forbes, 29 Feb. 2024
• In early March, another attack on MAX light-rail called attention to bystander intervention when an assailant hit a man in the face with a large rock after the man tried to help a woman who was being yelled at by the assailant.
  — oregonlive, 30 Mar. 2023
• The 2002 Games, widely regarded as one of the most successful Olympics, brought government funding for a light-rail system and world-class athletic facilities.
  — Hannah Schoenbaum, Quartz, 10 Apr. 2024
• The project piggybacks on light-rail tracks along an existing freight rail corridor, minimizing the amount of property the MTA would need to acquire in order to provide new transit service.
  — Evan Simko-Bednarski, New York Daily News, 21 June 2024
• The first proposes no expansion of Metrorail, leaving the corridor as is, with transportation needs being left to bus rapid transit lines and Maryland’s light-rail Purple Line system.
  — Justin George, Washington Post, 10 July 2023
• Conservative lawmakers oppose light rail, mass transit projects Conservative lawmakers opposed a renewal of that plan, saying mass transit projects, and light-rail extensions in particular, were a waste of money and didn't serve their constituents.
  — Taylor Seely, The Arizona Republic, 14 June 2023

Last Updated: 18 Nov 2024