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mass transit

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noun

  1. a system of large-scale public transportation in a given metropolitan area, typically comprising buses, subways, and elevated trains.

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For many fans, if you want to take mass transit to the game, you have to get to the train station first.

From Los Angeles Times • Oct. 27, 2025

In Toronto, fans get to the game the way God intended: on mass transit that drops you off right at the ballpark, because the communal experience of professional sports should include the ride there.

From Los Angeles Times • Oct. 27, 2025

Soldiers rehearsed fending off enemy troops on the mass transit system, expressways and city suburbs.

From BBC • Aug. 25, 2025

New York has generated money for mass transit with congestion pricing.

From Slate • Apr. 14, 2025

Car rental companies and mass transit and traffic authorities are watching where we go, sending us automated tickets, finking us out to busybodies, cops and bad guys who gain illicit access to their databases.

From Little Brother by Doctorow, Cory

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