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
• The train will be decoupled at Calabria and loaded onto the world’s first passenger rail ferry for a trip to the island.
  — Rachel Cormack, Robb Report, 13 Aug. 2024
• On those days, there will be no passenger rail service and no replacement bus service.
  — Phil Diehl, San Diego Union-Tribune, 9 Mar. 2023
• But in those years passenger rail was a dominant business.
  — William Finnegan, The New Yorker, 6 Mar. 2023
• That schedule would change under one of four plans for new or expanded passenger rail service in Ohio.
  — Patricia Gallagher Newberry, The Enquirer, 12 June 2024
• 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
• 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
• 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
• The City of Madison will hold two public meetings discussing the potential passenger rail station sites.
  — Claire Reid, Journal Sentinel, 29 Jan. 2024
• 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
• The Queen City is poised to regain its reputation as one of the nation’s busiest train stops with a flurry of proposals on the table to expand passenger rail service here.
  — Randy Tucker, The Enquirer, 25 June 2024
• 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
• 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
• 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
• 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
• And the tracks have been preserved in case the passenger rail makes a comeback, a possibility Amtrak began floating last November.
  — Amelia Benavides-Colón, Detroit Free Press, 23 Feb. 2024
• 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
• 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
• 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
• Workers are still trying to restore passenger rail service between Orange County and San Diego.
  — Gary Robbins, San Diego Union-Tribune, 29 Jan. 2024
• 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
• 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
• The analysis will also look at extending passenger rail service south from Jacksonville to Orlando.
  — John Sharp | , al, 6 Apr. 2023
• Canada's national passenger rail service, Via Rail, offers a cross-country route from Toronto to Vancouver.
  — Cailey Rizzo, Travel + Leisure, 23 May 2024
• 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
• 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
• In 1971, Amtrak began operating the first federally run passenger rail service across the United States.
  — Lorenzino Estrada, The Arizona Republic, 1 May 2024
• Although a majority of Americans are in support of public transportation and passenger rail, the share of people who use public transit everyday to commute to work is miniscule: 3.1%, to be exact.
  — Sara Chernikoff, USA TODAY, 28 May 2024
• The study proposed eight potential locations for Madison's future passenger rail station.
  — Claire Reid, Journal Sentinel, 29 Jan. 2024
• 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

Last Updated: 10 Nov 2024