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When tourists step off the light rail at Westlake Station and ask Dion Hardeman where to use a restroom, the transit ambassador wishes he could be more helpful.

From Seattle Times • Oct. 9, 2023

The agency is slowly recovering, with weekday ridership on rail at 64% of prepandemic levels in May, as crime appears to be leveling off.

From Los Angeles Times • Jun. 23, 2023

We all rail at the previous generation but somehow know it’s only a matter of time until we will become them ourselves.

From New York Times • Oct. 13, 2022

It can be easy to caricature those who traffic in disinformation as guileless, or to rail at cluelessness that compromises public health or election outcomes.

From Slate • Dec. 15, 2021

With a graceful movement of the wrist, a gesture so quick and small we never really saw it, only remembered it afterward, she tossed the bottle over the rail at us.

From "The Bluest Eye" by Toni Morrison




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