monorail

as in railroad

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Recent Examples of monorail While above-ground systems are well-suited for city infrastructure, one drawback is the bulky nature of certain systems, such as monorails or elevated railways. Nadezhda Kosareva, Forbes, 19 Mar. 2025 After fighting transit advocates who were pushing Miami-Dade to drop a fund for a private monorail line to South Beach in favor of extending Metromover, Higgins reversed course in 2022 and adopted the same position. Tess Riski, Miami Herald, 2 Apr. 2025 With a monorail touching many landmarks, the map's building architecture looks modern, but with plenty of zip lines connecting buildings. Thomas G. Moukawsher, Newsweek, 29 Nov. 2024 How many hotels are on the monorail? Eve Chen, USA TODAY, 14 Oct. 2024 See All Example Sentences for monorail
Recent Examples of Synonyms for monorail
Noun
  • The Surface Transportation Board does only railroads.
    Stephen L. Carter, Twin Cities, 6 June 2025
  • The Northern Indiana Commuter Transportation District, which operates the railroad, began seeking public comments Thursday on future improvements and priorities.
    Doug Ross, Chicago Tribune, 5 June 2025
Noun
  • Both have been neglected for years: Bridges are crumbling, school buildings disintegrating, and trains — once a symbol of German efficiency — are now so unreliable that some lines are banned from neighboring Switzerland’s railways.
    Tom Chivers, semafor.com, 4 June 2025
  • Meanwhile, Russian railway authorities say a separate rail bridge collapsed in the neighboring Kursk region hours later — derailing a freight train and injuring several crew members.
    Charles Maynes, NPR, 2 June 2025
Noun
  • In addition to serving tourists (in particular those headed to Neom), the bridge would also tie into a larger rail cargo network that Egypt has spent the past decade upgrading and would allow easier shipments of cargo from East to West.
    Adam Williams, New Atlas, 6 June 2025
  • Russia has recently accused Ukraine of sabotaging the rail network.
    Hanna Arhirova, Los Angeles Times, 6 June 2025
Noun
  • These disruptions often result in road closures, traffic spikes and delays across key transit routes, severely affecting delivery schedules.
    Clemente Theotokis, Forbes.com, 10 June 2025
  • But Woldenberg, who holds a J.D. from the University of Chicago Law School and who worked at a corporate law firm before joining the family business, has been down this road before.
    John Cassidy, New Yorker, 9 June 2025

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