How to Use grade separation in a Sentence

grade separation

noun

• Project types can include grade separations, new roadway alignments, and access roads.
  — Jake Zuckerman, cleveland, 5 Sep. 2023
• For people on foot, grade separation can mean a pedestrian bridge over the tracks that allows safe passageway.
  — Brittany Wallman, Miami Herald, 18 Dec. 2025
• No hills means there is no natural grade separation between the railroad and intersecting roads and footpaths.
  — Ian Savage, The Conversation, 14 Jan. 2026
• Any development would likely require grade separation under or over the railroad tracks that run on the western edge of the property.
  — J.k. Dineen, San Francisco Chronicle, 20 Feb. 2023
• The idea of functional grade separation — pedestrians on one level, cars on another, trucks a third — was a midcentury dream that failed.
  — Mark Lamster, Dallas News, 1 Aug. 2019
• And the 18-mile Orange Line is getting a massive overhaul, including grade separations and gates, to speed up the bus.
  — Dakota Smith, Los Angeles Times, 14 Dec. 2024
• What To Know The Avenue 88 structure is the seventh grade separation to be opened to traffic this year.
  — Theo Burman, MSNBC Newsweek, 22 Aug. 2025
• Some of the projects involve what are called grade separations, with roadway overpasses or underpasses where vehicle traffic crosses railroad tracks at grade level.
  — Mike Nolan, Daily Southtown, 12 June 2019
• Infrastructure upgrades include pedestrian grade separation, new bike lanes, sidewalk improvements and more.
  — Sarah Ravani, San Francisco Chronicle, 30 Apr. 2021
• Specifically, a Phase 1 study will be conducted to see if widening the roadways will improve the situation and/or if a grade separation is feasible.
  — Dan Moran, Lake County News-Sun, 11 June 2019
• The current project extends to roughly Bay Road, but without additional grade separations for Woodside Road.
  — Gary Richards, The Mercury News, 4 June 2019
• The 12-cent increase must be used on regular road maintenance and rehabilitation, safety projects, railroad grade separations and complete streets.
  — Gary Richards, The Mercury News, 11 July 2019
• The feasibility study will help determine details such as costs and whether the grade separation should be built above or below ground level, said Vista Mayor John Franklin.
  — Phil Diehl, San Diego Union-Tribune, 29 Aug. 2023
• In May, the Texas Legislature approved a grant program to provide money for grade separation projects related to railways, such as bridges or underpasses.
  — Rachel Royster, Fort Worth Star-Telegram, 16 Dec. 2025
• The village also plans to continue to make progress on the grade separation and underpass at Grand Avenue following the appropriation of $24 million in funds to support the project.
  — Kyra Senese, chicagotribune.com, 3 Jan. 2022
• The grade separation in Elmwood Park is expected to run from approximately 76th to 78th Avenues, Volpe said.
  — Chuck Fieldman, Chicago Tribune, 17 Jan. 2025
• Duffy cited four projects related to the broader California high-speed rail initiative that would lose funding, including track extensions, grade separations, design work and the construction of a rail station in Madera.
  — Laya Neelakandan, CNBC, 26 Aug. 2025
• One of the projects that didn't receive funding was a grade separation at the intersection of 86th and the Monon trail, similar to what's at the Nickel Plate trail's 46th Street intersection now.
  — Nadia Scharf, The Indianapolis Star, 14 June 2024
• During construction, crews had to build multiple structures, as well incorporate drainage, grade separation and animal crossing components, according to Scott Eades, Caltrans District 5 director.
  — Hannah Poukish, Sacbee.com, 12 June 2025
• Already, the High-Speed Rail Authority, which has been building the embankments, bridges, tunnels and grade separations needed for the train over the last decade, like an overpass just completed in Fresno, has begun ordering steel and other materials needed to finally begin laying tracks.
  — Alan Ohnsman, Forbes.com, 13 Aug. 2025
• During Monday’s Shafter council meeting, CHSRA representatives proposed adjustments intended to reduce construction time, interruptions, and costs by using grade separations, such as overpasses, instead of building a 35-foot wall along the rail line.
  — Daniel Orton, MSNBC Newsweek, 5 Nov. 2025