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Definition of Rapid transit
1. Noun. An urban public transit system using underground or elevated trains.
Definition of Rapid transit
1. Noun. 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. ¹
¹ Source: wiktionary.com
Lexicographical Neighbors of Rapid Transit
Literary usage of Rapid transit
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Great Cities in America: Their Problems and Their Government by Delos Franklin Wilcox (1910)
"rapid transit franchises. — Franchises for elevated and tunnel railroads are on a
... The great need for rapid transit railways, which began to be felt more ..."
2. Transactions of the American Institute of Electrical Engineers by American Institute of Electrical Engineers (1899)
"The rapid transit problem, in congested districts, has to deal with the ...
As running at a constant speed does not occur in rapid transit service where ..."
3. Municipal Franchises: A Description of the Terms and Conditions Upon which by Delos Franklin Wilcox (1911)
"The legal procedure required for the construction of a rapid transit railroad in
... The present rapid transit law, which provides for the construction of ..."
4. Journal by New York (State). Legislature. Senate (1915)
"'An act to provide for rapid transit railways in cities of over one million
inhabitants,' with reference to exchange of property owned by the city and used ..."
5. The Regulation of Municipal Utilities by Clyde Lyndon King (1912)
"CHAPTER VII A rapid transit POLICY FOR GREATER NEW YORK THE rapid transit Problem
of New York City is of greatest interest because it is one of the most ..."
6. The Growth of Cities in the Nineteenth Century: A Study in Statistics by Adna Ferrin Weber (1899)
"The transcendent importance of rapid transit as a remedy for overcrowding has
been recognized most adequately in Belgium, where the railways are principally ..."
7. A Treatise on Electric Law: Comprising the Law Governing All Electric by Joseph Asbury Joyce, Howard Clifford Joyce (1907)
"rapid transit law of New York — Conditional approval of routes.— In a case decided
by the Supreme Court of Xew York, appellate division, in July, l!tf>6, ..."
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