rapid transit line

A rapid transit line is a high-capacity, high-frequency urban rail route operating on an exclusive or mostly separated right-of-way to provide fast, reliable public transportation between key areas of a city or metropolitan region.

Observed surface forms (41)

• light rail line ×56
• metro line ×32
• rapid transit service ×29
• light rail system ×28
• New York City Subway line ×27
• Moscow Metro line ×12
• Los Angeles Metro Rail line ×11
• Washington Metro line ×11
• London Underground line ×10
• public transit line ×10

• Paris Métro line ×8
• public transportation route ×7
• Chicago 'L' line ×6
• MBTA Green Line branch ×4
• planned metro line ×4
• heavy rail line ×3
• light metro line ×3
• urban rail line ×3
• Bay Area Rapid Transit service ×2
• Chicago Transit Authority line ×2
• MBTA Red Line branch ×2
• Mexico City Metro line ×2
• New York City Subway trunk line ×2
• Réseau Express Régional line ×2
• line of the Moscow Metro ×2
• public transport line ×2
• rapid transit service pattern ×2
• 'L' line ×1
• Chicago "L" line ×1
• London Underground line extension ×1
• Metro Rail line ×1
• Shenzhen Metro line ×1
• Tokyo Metro line ×1
• component of the New York City Subway ×1
• former rapid transit line ×1
• fully automated metro line ×1
• heavy rail transit line ×1
• light metro system ×1
• maglev rapid transit line ×1
• metro rail transit line ×1
• rapid transit line branch ×1

Instances (327)

• Metropolitan West Side Elevated Railroad
• Washington Metro Red Line
• Braintree branch
• Norristown High Speed Line
• Dyre Avenue Line via concept surface "New York City Subway line"
• Altrincham Line via concept surface "light rail line"
• Eighth Avenue Line via concept surface "New York City Subway trunk line"
• BMT Jamaica Line via concept surface "New York City Subway line"
• IND Sixth Avenue Line via concept surface "New York City Subway line"
• IND Crosstown Line via concept surface "New York City Subway line"
• Washington Metro Green Line
• IND Concourse Line via concept surface "New York City Subway line"
• Queens Boulevard Line via concept surface "New York City Subway line"
• IND Culver Line (subway portion) via concept surface "New York City Subway line"
• Route 36 via concept surface "light rail line"
• Paris Métro Line 4
• Paris Métro Line 5
• Metro A Line via concept surface "light rail line"
• R (New York City Subway service)
• Paris Métro Line 1
• Metro E Line via concept surface "light rail line"
• Metro C Line via concept surface "light rail line"
• Metro K Line via concept surface "light rail line"
• Volgograd Metrotram via concept surface "light rail system"
• Metro L Line (under construction or reconfiguration) via concept surface "light rail line"
  surface form: Metro L Line (Los Angeles)
• BMT Nassau Street Line via concept surface "New York City Subway line"
• Sokolnicheskaya Line via concept surface "Moscow Metro line"
• Big Circle Line via concept surface "metro line"
• Zamoskvoretskaya Line via concept surface "Moscow Metro line"
• RER A via concept surface "Réseau Express Régional line"
• Arbatsko–Pokrovskaya Line via concept surface "Moscow Metro line"
• Koltsevaya Line via concept surface "Moscow Metro line"
• Red Line
  surface form: Red Line (MBTA)
• Orange Line
  surface form: Orange Line (MBTA)
• Tagansko–Krasnopresnenskaya Line via concept surface "Moscow Metro line"
• Kalininsko–Solntsevskaya Line
• Blue Line
  surface form: Blue Line (MBTA)
• Lyublinsko–Dmitrovskaya Line via concept surface "Moscow Metro line"
• Paris Métro Line 14
• Green Line via concept surface "light rail line"
  surface form: Green Line (MBTA)
• Broad Street Line
• Line 3 Scarborough via concept surface "light metro line"
• Line 2
  surface form: Line 2 Bloor–Danforth
• Serpukhovsko–Timiryazevskaya Line via concept surface "Moscow Metro line"
• Butovskaya Line via concept surface "light metro line"
• Moscow Central Circle via concept surface "urban rail line"
• Metro Line 3
• Bolshaya Koltsevaya Line
• Nekrasovskaya Line
• Metro Line 6