How to Use passenger rail in a Sentence
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There was a bill to block state funding for passenger rail at the State House this session.
—Amanda Gokee, BostonGlobe.com, 30 May 2023
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On those days, there will be no passenger rail service and no replacement bus service.
—Phil Diehl, San Diego Union-Tribune, 9 Mar. 2023
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But in those years passenger rail was a dominant business.
—William Finnegan, The New Yorker, 6 Mar. 2023
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The governor also made the case for expanding Colorado’s transit options, chiefly with a passenger rail along the Front Range.
—Washington Examiner, 13 Jan. 2024
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But officials in cities along the route have high hopes that improving passenger rail connections will boost commerce and tourism.
—Frederick Melo, Twin Cities, 21 May 2024
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National rail investment, but not in Boise Boise and its surrounding cities haven’t had passenger rail service since the late 1990s.
—Kevin Fixler, Idaho Statesman, 6 Feb. 2024
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The City of Madison will hold two public meetings discussing the potential passenger rail station sites.
—Claire Reid, Journal Sentinel, 29 Jan. 2024
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After a 50-year fight for survival, Amtrak finally has the resources to make passenger rail more viable.
—Kathleen Gallagher, Journal Sentinel, 17 Aug. 2023
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Dyson argued that track realignment would not only move the trains out of harm’s way but also make for a faster and more competitive passenger rail service.
—Gabriel San Román, Los Angeles Times, 29 June 2023
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The private Miami passenger rail company thinks that will be the fastest a set of locomotives and coach cars has ever traveled in the Sunshine State.
—Kevin Spear, Orlando Sentinel, 1 Mar. 2023
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Moreover, there are other passenger rail systems in California, which may want a share of any money headed to the Golden State.
—Ralph Vartabedian, Los Angeles Times, 11 Mar. 2023
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Speed isn’t everything, of course, and there are geographic and historical reasons that passenger rail is so feeble in the U.S.
—William Finnegan, The New Yorker, 6 Mar. 2023
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In December, the Biden administration announced $8.2 billion in funds will be allotted to 10 passenger rail projects across the US.
—Jessica Puckett, Condé Nast Traveler, 14 Dec. 2023
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Friday’s trip was planned before the shooting and Biden’s focus on train service is little surprise for a president who is a big passenger rail advocate.
—Will Weissert, Fortune, 8 Dec. 2023
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With little to no passenger rail services remaining in sub-Saharan Africa, the countryside crossed by the railway is largely untouched by tourism.
—Caitlin Morton, Condé Nast Traveler, 24 Oct. 2023
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Workers are still trying to restore passenger rail service between Orange County and San Diego.
—Gary Robbins, San Diego Union-Tribune, 29 Jan. 2024
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The new bridge would double train capacity to support commerce and increasing demands for passenger rail along the busy East Coast corridor.
—Luz Lazo, Washington Post, 29 Aug. 2023
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Through the federal infrastructure law Biden signed in November 2021, tens of billions of dollars were available to expand the nation’s passenger rail system.
—Kevin Fixler, Idaho Statesman, 6 Feb. 2024
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The analysis will also look at extending passenger rail service south from Jacksonville to Orlando.
—John Sharp | , al, 6 Apr. 2023
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Canada's national passenger rail service, Via Rail, offers a cross-country route from Toronto to Vancouver.
—Cailey Rizzo, Travel + Leisure, 23 May 2024
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Despite the emergency declaration and impending funding, there is still no timeline as to when passenger rail service will resume.
—Karen Garcia, Los Angeles Times, 2 Feb. 2024
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The Douglass Tunnel could be a difference-maker for high-speed passenger rail in the Northeast Corridor, a critically important economic asset not just for this city but for the nation.
—Baltimore Sun Editorial Board, Baltimore Sun, 14 May 2024
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The study proposed eight potential locations for Madison's future passenger rail station.
—Claire Reid, Journal Sentinel, 29 Jan. 2024
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Officials hope to resume passenger rail service by early April after the wall is built and any necessary track repairs — stemming from damage during construction — are completed.
—Hannah Fry, Los Angeles Times, 28 Feb. 2024
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Virginia has received $729 million in federal money that advances a plan to boost train capacity over the Potomac River and grow passenger rail operations within the decade, members of the state’s congressional delegation announced Thursday.
—Washington Post Staff, Washington Post, 7 Dec. 2023
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Then in 2013, the Orange County Transportation Authority was chosen to oversee intercity passenger rail service.
—Hanna Kang, Orange County Register, 25 Feb. 2024
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An important justification for the bullet train since its inception was an expectation that population growth would necessitate improved passenger rail.
—Ralph Vartabedian, Los Angeles Times, 11 Mar. 2023
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Those include: the consolidated rail infrastructure safety and improvements grant program; the corridor identification and development program; and the federal-state partnership for intercity passenger rail grant program.
—Zaeem Shaikh, Dallas News, 9 Aug. 2023
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