commuter rail

idiom

: part of a railroad made especially for people who work in a city but live outside it

Examples of commuter rail in a Sentence

Recent Examples on the Web

Sonoma-Marin Area Rail Transit, or SMART, is overseeing the southern portion of the project, where the path will mostly follow a commuter rail line. —Lila Seidman, Los Angeles Times, 6 Apr. 2024

Subway, bus, and commuter rail systems are struggling to regain ridership in a post-pandemic era in which fewer people commute to work. —Laurent Belsie, The Christian Science Monitor, 29 Mar. 2024

The draft budget also allocates funding to other rail expansion projects to build roughly 200 miles of new commuter rail lines across the region. —Emily Alvarenga, San Diego Union-Tribune, 29 Mar. 2024

The SunRail is the city's commuter rail, originating north of Sanford and taking passengers southbound, all the way to Kissimmee. —Jacqueline Dole, Travel + Leisure, 19 Mar. 2024

How to Get Around Trains: Public transportation in Boston runs through Massachusetts Bay Transportation Authority (MBTA), which offers two types of trains: the metro and the commuter rail. —Maya Kachroo-Levine, Travel + Leisure, 12 Feb. 2024

The greatest lament in northwest communities — a complaint voiced often by Polis and some other officials — is RTD’s failure, due to insufficient funding, to build out the full B-Line commuter rail train to Boulder and Longmont as promised. —Noelle Phillips, The Denver Post, 7 Feb. 2024

The changes are coming as the commuter rail agency faces ridership that has continued to lag since the pandemic upended traditional commuting patterns. —Sarah Freishtat, Chicago Tribune, 23 Jan. 2024

Metrolink, the commuter rail service managed by the Southern California Regional Rail Authority, is unable to secure enough shuttles or buses to shuttle commuters between Orange County and Oceanside while the trains are halted, said spokesperson Scott Johnson. —Hanna Kang, Orange County Register, 25 Feb. 2024