How to Use light-rail in a Sentence

light-rail

noun
  • The driver told me to go to the end of the line, then take the light-rail.
    — Andrew Leland, The New Yorker, 8 July 2023
  • When light-rail cars are full, more than half the riders are forced to stand.
    — Randal O'Toole, Baltimore Sun, 11 Aug. 2024
  • There’s a light-rail system called TRAX and a bus network.
    — Nate Jones, Vulture, 23 July 2024
  • Get around using the city’s light-rail, or do as the Danish do and hop on two wheels with the city’s bike-share system.
    — Andrew Richdale, AFAR Media, 17 Mar. 2025
  • Fun fact: As a resident of Ingleside, Kirschbaum loves the K light-rail line.
    — Nadia Lopez, Axios, 19 Mar. 2025
  • The Bronco hit the utility pole shortly thereafter and rolled over at the light-rail station.
    — The Oregonian/oregonlive Public Safety Team, oregonlive, 6 July 2023
  • Some of the trails also will run near three future Purple Line light-rail stations in Maryland.
    — Luz Lazo, Washington Post, 28 June 2023
  • On the light-rail platform, office workers and transit fans had their cellphones pointed at the track as the trains approached.
    — Rachel Uranga, Los Angeles Times, 16 June 2023
  • Those incidents included blocking a bus in a narrow street and stopping just in front of a light-rail train’s path.
    — Chloe Taylor, Fortune, 10 July 2023
  • The Purple Line, a light-rail system with stops in Maryland, will be operating by 2026 with a stop in Greenbelt.
    — Brian Witte, Baltimore Sun, 8 Mar. 2023
  • In 2004, Miami Beach voters endorsed a light-rail system over the MacArthur, but the project never advanced.
    — Aaron Leibowitz, Miami Herald, 21 Feb. 2024
  • The four-stop, subterranean light-rail line was three years behind schedule and $335 million over budget.
    — Rachel Uranga, Los Angeles Times, 16 June 2023
  • Lawmakers made changes to the bill, which boosts funding for highways and bars any spending on light-rail expansion.
    — Arizona Republic, The Arizona Republic, 28 May 2024
  • Townhouses, warehouses and a light-rail station took their place.
    — Andrew J. Campa, Los Angeles Times, 21 Apr. 2024
  • And the city is following through with plans for a light-rail system, which could eventually include seven lines and carry hundreds of thousands of passengers.
    — Seth Kaplan, Foreign Affairs, 20 Aug. 2014
  • Even with local officials making a tremendous push ahead of the 2028 Olympics to expand the light-rail system and add bus lanes and bike paths, the region must do far more to reshape its car-centric urban infrastructure.
    — Sammy Roth, Los Angeles Times, 26 Oct. 2023
  • While the effectiveness of this trick varies by city or locale—some places just aren’t as well connected as others—you’ll generally be able to find a local bus, train, metro, light-rail line, ferry or bike-share service.
    — Kaeli Conforti, Forbes, 29 Feb. 2024
  • In early March, another attack on MAX light-rail called attention to bystander intervention when an assailant hit a man in the face with a large rock after the man tried to help a woman who was being yelled at by the assailant.
    — oregonlive, 30 Mar. 2023
  • The 2002 Games, widely regarded as one of the most successful Olympics, brought government funding for a light-rail system and world-class athletic facilities.
    — Hannah Schoenbaum, Quartz, 10 Apr. 2024
  • The project piggybacks on light-rail tracks along an existing freight rail corridor, minimizing the amount of property the MTA would need to acquire in order to provide new transit service.
    — Evan Simko-Bednarski, New York Daily News, 21 June 2024
  • The first proposes no expansion of Metrorail, leaving the corridor as is, with transportation needs being left to bus rapid transit lines and Maryland’s light-rail Purple Line system.
    — Justin George, Washington Post, 10 July 2023
  • The Interborough Express light-rail project connecting Brooklyn to Queens — a $5.5 billion project — is expected to rely on some $3 billion in federal funds.
    — Evan Simko-Bednarski, New York Daily News, 1 Feb. 2025
  • There’s a light-rail stop one street over, but early Culdesac residents received a complimentary electric bike, which is Johnson’s favorite mode of transportation.
    — Andrew Zaleski, Outside Online, 17 Sep. 2024
  • Conservative lawmakers oppose light rail, mass transit projects Conservative lawmakers opposed a renewal of that plan, saying mass transit projects, and light-rail extensions in particular, were a waste of money and didn't serve their constituents.
    — Taylor Seely, The Arizona Republic, 14 June 2023
  • The area surrounding Channel 24 is predominantly residential, with narrow streets and a patchwork of existing parking restrictions, as well as a Sacramento Regional Transit light-rail station.
    — Marcus D. Smith, Sacbee.com, 27 Mar. 2025

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