kiss and ride n.— «It has created “park and ride” terminals, where passengers may leave their cars in the morning. It has promoted “kiss and ride” points, where wives are urged to deposit their husbands for the...
kiss and ride n. a passenger drop-off area near a rapid transit station; the act of using such an area as intended. Also as verb phrase. Editorial Note: Often attributive. Etymological Note: From the 1950s-era urban planning vision of wives dropping...
kiss and ride n.— «I believe we are going to have co-ordination between automobiles and rapid transit.…It will be park and ride or kiss and ride—where the wife takes the husband to the rapid transit line and kisses him good-by...
walkshed n.— «Typically, the “walkshed” for transit is about one-quarter mile and, in some cases, as much as one-half mile if sufficient infrastructure is in place to accommodate pedestrians (i.e. sidewalks, safety design and lighting;...
walk shed n.— «Jeff Drinkwater questioned the fixed half-mile walk shed to transit stops. He asked how much of Baltimore City falls within the walk shed of a transit stop.» —“Technical Committee” Baltimore Regional...
cave cop n.— «John Finley 3rd joined the New York City Transit Police in 1990 before it was merged into the NYPD in 1995, in what the old Transit “cave cops” still refer to as a “hostile takeover.” Today, John...