mass transit

noun

chiefly US

: the transportation of large numbers of people by means of buses, subway trains, etc., especially within urban areas

also : the system, vehicles, or facilities engaged in such transportation

I rode mass transit—first the bus, then Metro—for nearly two decades. —

Fred Barnes

Examples of mass transit in a Sentence

Recent Examples on the Web Some 911 services weren’t working In addition to flights, the technical disaster has affected some 911 operations in the United States; mass transit in New York and Washington, DC; banking in Australia, South Africa and the United Kingdom; Hong Kong’s Disneyland; and the Israeli health service. —

Holly Yan, CNN, 19 July 2024 People are urged to car pool, telecommute or use mass transit. —

Staff Reports, The Arizona Republic, 14 Aug. 2024 Villaraigosa was also a vocal backer of mass transit and a key architect of the 2008 landmark sales tax increase that helped fund the construction of rail lines through South Los Angeles, the San Gabriel Valley and the Westside. —

Phil Willon, Los Angeles Times, 9 Aug. 2024 The billions of dollars that state DOTs are allocating toward a Sisyphean war on congestion could instead be spent on projects that can credibly reduce driving, such as mass transit and dense development. —

David Zipper, Vox, 29 July 2024 See all Example Sentences for mass transit

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