metro vs rapid transit

metro

noun
  • A rapid transit rail transport system, or a train in such systems, generally underground and serving a metropolitan area. 

  • An urban rapid transit rail transport system, normally with lighter track and light trains (i.e. an S-Bahn or similar), or a train in such systems. 

  • A metropolitan area. 

adj
  • metropolitan 

rapid transit

noun
  • A commuter rail system that combines aspects of an interurban railway with those of a subway, using a menagerie of pathways such as viaduct, tunnel, beam, cut and cover, trench, at grade, and others. 

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