Sentence examples for city rail from inspiring English sources
In his 17 years at the redevelopment authority, Mr. Robin had an important role in creating the city rail transit system.
In the 1920's, the new emancipated ideal was a young, cigarette-smoking flapper in the city, rail thin and unmarried -- definitely not a mother.
After two weeks of covering the tower with a machine gun from a hilltop position nearby, the French sent 20 soldiers on foot into a narrow gorge through which the Communist-controlled elevated city rail line runs.
Other booming cities, notably Mumbai and Hyderabad, are now reaching out to private actors to help build city rail networks, just as many states have handed over airport construction and operation to firms.
Kurfürstendamm 53, Wilmersdorf; nearest S-bahn (city rail), Savignyplatz; +49 30 881 8033, askanischer-hof.de; doubles from €117 Soho House Berlin This ginormous Bauhaus building on a busy junction in Mitte opened in 1928 as a department store and is now the latest outpost in the Soho House empire of private members' clubs.
For William Shelby, who has been punching tickets on New Jersey Transit's Atlantic City rail service between Philadelphia and Atlantic City since it began in 1989, the daily mix of poker-playing gamblers, casino employees, commuters, conventioneers and college students, "is a community that's always celebrating something -- weddings, birthdays, raises on the job.
Average travel time was firstly reduced by expressway development; and it will be reduced further by the introduction of the inter-city rail system in 2011.
Inter-city rail services deserve better than their notorious reputation, although a trip from Cape Town to Johannesburg takes more than 26 hours.
They understand that rapid, inter-city rail systems will be essential to developing competitive 21st-century economies as oil supplies dwindle, highways and airports face increasing congestion, and pressure to reduce carbon emissions rises.
Sea Containers, the parent company of the inter-city rail operator GNER, will today file for Chapter 11 bankruptcy protection after failing to pay back a $115m loan which fell due yesterday.
Eighty per cent of IoD members say improving inter-city rail connectivity should be an infrastructure priority, so we welcome the vision and the optimism set out by the chancellor today.
