Sentence examples for elevated transit from inspiring English sources

See elevated transit line; mass transit; subway.

A rapid transit line may run underground (subway), above street level (elevated transit line), or at street level.

Ms. Cherry has a field day with two 1955 series on the old Third Avenue elevated transit line, which had brutalized the avenue with noise and darkness since 1878.

In August 1991, in partnership with BBC Manchester, Metrolink ran a "Nickname Metrolink" competition to find an affectionate short name for the system, comparable to "The Tube" for London Underground and "The L" for the Chicago elevated transit system.

Elevated transit systems avoid the need for costly tunneling and minimize the need to relocate existing utilities; however, elevated metro systems typically require wide visually obtrusive deck construction and often still require extensive destruction of existing infrastructure.

Elevated transit line, railroad line, usually electric, raised above the ground or street level, usually on a trestle, for local transit in urban areas.

Earth to SMT: we tried elevating transit on the waterfront once.

Some cities, starting with New York in 1868, constructed elevated rail transit lines to accomplish the same end.