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:
“As a rule, all heroism is due to a lack of reflection, and thus it is necessary to maintain a mass of imbeciles. If they once understand themselves the ruling men will be lost.”
—Ernest Renan (1823–1892)
““Five o’clock tea” is a phrase our “rude forefathers,” even of the last generation, would scarcely have understood, so completely is it a thing of to-day; and yet, so rapid is the March of the Mind, it has already risen into a national institution, and rivals, in its universal application to all ranks and ages, and as a specific for “all the ills that flesh is heir to,” the glorious Magna Charta.”
—Lewis Carroll [Charles Lutwidge Dodgson] (1832–1898)
“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)