How to Use commuter rail in a Sentence
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On paper, the sky-high commuter rail tickets make sense.
—Boston Herald Editorial Staff, Boston Herald, 8 Apr. 2026
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So how about the new income to bolster the subways, buses and commuter rail?
—New York Daily News Editorial Board, New York Daily News, 19 Jan. 2025
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The commuter rail will not run on Thanksgiving Day.
—Tara Lynch, CBS News, 20 Nov. 2025
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Coastal commuter rail has long been planned for South Florida.
—David Lyons, Sun Sentinel, 25 Aug. 2022
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But that wasn’t enough for one beleaguered commuter rail monthly pass holder.
—Sean P. Murphy, BostonGlobe.com, 25 Apr. 2023
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There are 13 commuter rail lines, all of which will take you out to various suburbs of the city.
—Maya Kachroo-Levine, Travel + Leisure, 12 Feb. 2024
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If the tax doesn't pass, the city may be stuck with the corridor, without the revenue source to build the commuter rail.
—Alexandria Sands, Axios, 4 Sep. 2024
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The commuter rail project has been in the works for decades but was hindered by a lack of access to railroad tracks and funding.
—Mary Ramsey, Charlotte Observer, 29 Oct. 2025
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Around the country, some local commuter rail lines also depend on tracks owned by the big freight railroads.
—David Koenig, Chron, 15 Sep. 2022
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Fort Lauderdale’s fight to persuade the county to build a tunnel for commuter rail is nowhere near over.
—Susannah Bryan, Sun Sentinel, 19 Mar. 2025
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Many fans arrive via the city’s TriMet commuter rail or walk to the stadium from blocks away.
—Joe Sills, Forbes, 5 Oct. 2024
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Cell phone networks failed in some districts and commuter rail services were disrupted.
—Anna Noryskiewicz, CBS News, 5 Jan. 2026
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New locomotives on the commuter rail lines will also be delayed.
—Evan Simko-Bednarski, New York Daily News, 26 June 2024
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The long list includes 250 new all-electric buses and new subway and commuter rail cars.
—Brian Fritsch, New York Daily News, 21 Apr. 2025
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There are no commuter rail stations in the city of University Park.
—Lilly Kersh, Dallas Morning News, 5 Jan. 2026
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One of the goals is to decide on the feasibility of commuter rail service in the village.
—Linda Girardi, Chicago Tribune, 29 June 2026
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People moved to the suburbs, congregating around commuter rail hubs.
—Matthew Wills, JSTOR Daily, 1 July 2025
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The Capital Metro commuter rail station is about one-eighth of a mile from the project's southern end.
—Claire Osborn, Austin American Statesman, 21 Feb. 2026
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The commuter rail line already is planning to introduce Saturday trips next year.
—Washington Post Staff, Washington Post, 7 Dec. 2023
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The heavy rains also prompted South Florida's high-speed commuter rail service to shut down.
—CBS News, 12 Apr. 2023
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Critics doubt a tunnel for commuter rail will ever get built in Fort Lauderdale’s downtown.
—Susannah Bryan, Sun Sentinel, 9 Feb. 2026
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The commuter rail service gradually expanded the schedule and span of its network over the years.
—Jaime Moore-Carrillo, Fort Worth Star-Telegram, 21 Feb. 2024
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The study concluded that the region’s best transit option for moving the most people around the most quickly is commuter rail.
—Idaho Statesman, 22 Aug. 2025
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The entire Metrolink regional commuter rail system will be shut down at the end of December for four days.
—Los Angeles Times, 15 Dec. 2023
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The amount was lowered in response to a dispute over the Silver Line commuter rail extension.
—Everton Bailey Jr., Dallas News, 15 June 2023
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New Yorkers depend on our subways, buses, and commuter rail lines to get to work, to shop, to meet friends and to visit friends and family.
—Mitchell Moss, New York Daily News, 6 Apr. 2025
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The vast bulk of that is earmarked for massive statewide upgrades to Connecticut’s parks, prisons, highways, bridges and commuter rail lines.
—Don Stacom, Hartford Courant, 10 June 2024
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The station stop is on the commuter rail station’s Milwaukee District North line.
—Jessi Virtusio, Chicago Tribune, 12 Jan. 2026
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With easy access to Route 1, I-95, and the commuter rail, Boston is within easy reach, too.
—Miriam Schwartz, Boston Herald, 21 Mar. 2025
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He’d been freshly hired by Tri-Rail, the commuter rail system a bit west of the Brightline tracks, and was forced to choose between the two.
—Brittany Wallman, Miami Herald, 17 Dec. 2025
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