rapid transit

noun

Meaning

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.

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Related words

mass rapid transit(English)megacommuter(English)metroisation(English)crossing loop(English)double-ending(English)reverse commute(English)double-tracking(English)commutation(English)

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