How to Use mass transit in a Sentence

mass transit

noun
  • Much of the proceeds have gone instead to mass transit.
    The Editorial Board, WSJ, 17 Mar. 2022
  • The plan also call for $25 billion per year for a decade to fund mass transit.
    Kate Aronoff, The New Republic, 24 Mar. 2022
  • The mass transit system is a godsend; Fawcett doesn’t have a car and doesn’t need one to get around.
    Byalicia Adamczyk, Fortune, 7 July 2024
  • You are urged to car pool, telecommute, or use mass transit.
    Staff Reports, The Arizona Republic, 17 May 2024
  • So many of our employees have gone to mass transit or to Uber.
    Jack Kelly, Forbes, 4 June 2022
  • It is meant to be a neighborhood park that users can walk to or take mass transit.
    Phillip Molnar, San Diego Union-Tribune, 27 May 2022
  • The incident comes amid a rise in crime on New York City’s mass transit.
    Fox News, 10 Nov. 2021
  • Commerce will thrive as taxis and scooter rentals fill the gap left by mass transit.
    Dennard Dayle, The New Yorker, 9 Nov. 2022
  • The jump in gas prices could prove to be a litmus test for Metro and mass transit in general.
    Rachel Uranga, Los Angeles Times, 11 Mar. 2022
  • Asian standouts Seven of the top 19 cities hailed for their mass transit systems are in Asia.
    Lilit Marcus, CNN, 6 Apr. 2023
  • Ballmer said the Clippers and the city plan to work on having mass transit to the games in hopes to ease traffic congestion.
    Mark Medina, USA TODAY, 17 Sep. 2021
  • Even in the best of times, metro Detroiters were split on whether the region needed more mass transit or less.
    Bill Laitner, Detroit Free Press, 22 Feb. 2022
  • San Diego, the eighth-largest city in the United States, doesn’t have a mass transit system that connects to its main airport.
    San Diego Union-Tribune, 22 Nov. 2021
  • Police said the youths in many cases come downtown from the South and West sides using mass transit.
    Morgan Greene, chicagotribune.com, 6 July 2021
  • People are urged to car pool, telecommute or use mass transit.
    Staff Reports, The Arizona Republic, 14 Aug. 2024
  • People were urged to car pool, telecommute or use mass transit.
    Staff Reports, The Arizona Republic, 3 Sep. 2024
  • Much of her work aims to make mass transit more enticing for commuters.
    Stephanie Cain, Fortune, 27 Sep. 2022
  • In Iorio’s view, the industries of the future won’t come to an area without mass transit.
    Margaret Talbot, The New Yorker, 11 Aug. 2021
  • When the QLine streetcar first arrived in Detroit in 2017, it was seen as a new future of mass transit in a city where cars are king.
    Camille Squires, Quartz, 17 Aug. 2021
  • The project will include a new bridge dedicated to mass transit that will run along I-10.
    Jay R. Jordan, Chron, 17 Aug. 2021
  • But with a federal grant of $6.88 billion—the largest for mass transit ever—is a major step.
    Rachel Chang, Condé Nast Traveler, 11 Dec. 2023
  • In each of the three states, masks must still be worn in health-care facilities and on mass transit, for example.
    Fortune, 28 Feb. 2022
  • The site is ideal for mass transit access, reducing the need for parking.
    Phil Rogers, Forbes, 21 Feb. 2024
  • Get people to stop driving cars and instead take mass transit.
    Lance Eliot, Forbes, 19 May 2021
  • His tenure gave a glimpse of his future as a mass transit advocate.
    Wire Reports, oregonlive, 3 May 2022
  • Some officials are urging people to take mass transit to get to the parade.
    Los Angeles Times, 15 Feb. 2022
  • The fighting in Ukraine’s east is forcing a mass migration to the west that is crowding mass transit centers and trains and jamming roads.
    James Freeman, WSJ, 25 Feb. 2022
  • Revenue from the federal gas tax funds the Highway Trust Fund, which is used to pay for transportation and mass transit projects.
    Arpan Lobo, Detroit Free Press, 22 June 2022
  • The whole point is to have a toll that encourages the most people possible onto mass transit.
    Kathryn Wylde, New York Daily News, 25 June 2024
  • One asset that sets Chicago above most other U.S. metros is its mass transit system.
    Will Johnson, Chicago Tribune, 17 Oct. 2024

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