The term Mass Rapid Transit may refer to Rapid transit.
The name Mass Rapid Transit is used by the following specific rapid transit systems, either as an official name or otherwise:
- Mass Rapid Transit (Singapore) system in Singapore
- Kaohsiung Mass Rapid Transit system in Kaoshiung, Taiwan
- MRT (Bangkok), officially named Mass Rapid Transit, in Bangkok, Thailand
- Official name of the Taipei Metro
- Mass Rapid Transit System (Chennai) in Chennai, India
- Delhi Mass Rapid Transit System in Delhi, India
Famous quotes containing the words mass, rapid and/or transit:
“Self-determination, the autonomy of the individual, asserts itself in the right to race his automobile, to handle his power tools, to buy a gun, to communicate to mass audiences his opinion, no matter how ignorant, how aggressive, it may be.”
—Herbert Marcuse (1898–1979)
“Missionaries, whether of philosophy or religion, rarely make rapid way, unless their preachings fall in with the prepossessions of the multitude of shallow thinkers, or can be made to serve as a stalking-horse for the promotion of the practical aims of the still larger multitude, who do not profess to think much, but are quite certain they want a great deal.”
—Thomas Henry Huxley (1825–95)
“There’s that popular misconception of man as something between a brute and an angel. Actually man is in transit between brute and God.”
—Norman Mailer (b. 1923)