How to Use rapid transit in a Sentence

rapid transit

noun

• We'll use rapid transit to get from the airport to the hotel.
• The Red Line, the first part of the new bus rapid transit system, has been in use for more than a year and a half.
  — Ethan May, The Indianapolis Star, 7 Apr. 2021
• That kind of rapid transit is possible even though the LC 500 is a bit on the portly side.
  — Al Haas, Philly.com, 25 Apr. 2018
• Power told The Enquirer in 1964 the city would need some form of rapid transit.
  — Scott Wartman, Cincinnati.com, 25 Apr. 2018
• But bus rapid transit mimics the features of light rail.
  — Kayla Dwyer, The Indianapolis Star, 27 Feb. 2024
• Hotels, restaurants, bars and rapid transit felt the pinch.
  — Mike Klingaman, baltimoresun.com, 10 Mar. 2022
• The $56 million a year in new tax revenue also would help fund the Red Line, the first of three planned bus rapid transit routes.
  — Kaitlin L Lange, Indianapolis Star, 12 Mar. 2018
• East Bay’s new bus rapid transit line to bring a new Tempo to East Oakland.
  — Kellie Hwang, SFChronicle.com, 10 Aug. 2020
• The bus rapid transit opened three years ago and links New Britain to much of central Connecticut.
  — Don Stacom, Courant Community, 11 Apr. 2018
• Operating since 1935, the Moscow Metro is the sixth busiest rapid transit system in the world, and the fifth in terms of track length.
  — Mikhael Agafonov, Travel + Leisure, 2 Apr. 2020
• The new mayor saw the rapid transit loop as a holdover from the boss era, which ultimately led to the subway's demise.
  — The Enquirer, 18 Feb. 2024
• Bangladesh Bangladesh has opened the country’s first rapid transit stations.
  — Nick Roll, The Christian Science Monitor, 13 Mar. 2023
• The city's first bus rapid transit line, the Red Line is set to be connected to a new Purple Line in coming years.
  — Ethan May, Indianapolis Star, 3 June 2020
• But as the agency rolled out its bus rapid transit lines, the calls for a rail system have disappeared.
  — BostonGlobe.com, 24 July 2021
• The city of Huntsville is focusing on bringing a bus rapid transit system to town in the near future.
  — al, 7 Sep. 2022
• One card for surface transit, one card for rapid transit.
  — Justin Brannan, New York Daily News, 31 July 2024
• Among other things, that means less money to widen the Richmond Highway (Route 1) and add a bus rapid transit line there.
  — Robert McCartney, Washington Post, 10 Aug. 2020
• Testing out rapid transit in preparation for the 2028 Olympic Games.
  — Eric Sondheimer, Los Angeles Times, 23 Sep. 2022
• The extra tax will go to Cincinnati Metro to support new bus routes, longer and more frequent service, bus-rapid transit and the like.
  — Hannah K. Sparling, The Enquirer, 1 Oct. 2020
• However, many young people want to take rapid transit to commute to and from work.
  — Sarah Hauer, Milwaukee Journal Sentinel, 27 Feb. 2018
• This is one of the last blank-canvas properties along rapid transit in Greater Boston.
  — Jon Chesto, BostonGlobe.com, 8 Sep. 2019
• Up the Ohio River, Cincinnati is debating whether to fund a new bus rapid transit line.
  — Billy Kobin, The Courier-Journal, 3 Jan. 2020
• This is what rapid transit should be: a 20-minute ride during the morning rush, six miles and eight stops from Alewife to downtown Boston.
  — BostonGlobe.com, 6 Aug. 2019
• An east-west rapid transit route is a priority for VIA as soon as the agency has the funding, Arndt said.
  — Megan Stringer, San Antonio Express-News, 11 Apr. 2022
• In practice, bus rapid transit has come to encompass a range of services.
  — BostonGlobe.com, 24 July 2021
• Part of the reasoning for that was because the impending construction of a bus rapid transit line along the street.
  — Jonathan Shikes, The Denver Post, 17 Oct. 2024
• At the northeast corner there's a Divvy station, and across the street on Washington stands a Loop Link bus rapid transit station.
  — John Greenfield, Chicago Reader, 4 Oct. 2017
• Is skeptical of the bus rapid transit line on Geary Boulevard and says the city should look at building a new subway line instead.
  — Dominic Fracassa, SFChronicle.com, 25 May 2018
• The county’s Flash service, a bus rapid transit line, will be excluded.
  — Luz Lazo, Washington Post, 1 July 2023
• The data doesn't bode well for a city with rapid transit striving to lower emissions and become more walkable and bikeable.
  — Alex Fitzpatrick, Axios, 26 Sep. 2024

Last Updated: 19 Dec 2024