How to Use grade separation in a Sentence

grade separation

noun
  • For people on foot, grade separation can mean a pedestrian bridge over the tracks that allows safe passageway.
    — Brittany Wallman, Miami Herald, 18 Dec. 2025
  • No hills means there is no natural grade separation between the railroad and intersecting roads and footpaths.
    — Ian Savage, The Conversation, 14 Jan. 2026
  • What To Know The Avenue 88 structure is the seventh grade separation to be opened to traffic this year.
    — Theo Burman, MSNBC Newsweek, 22 Aug. 2025
  • In May, the Texas Legislature approved a grant program to provide money for grade separation projects related to railways, such as bridges or underpasses.
    — Rachel Royster, Fort Worth Star-Telegram, 16 Dec. 2025
  • Duffy cited four projects related to the broader California high-speed rail initiative that would lose funding, including track extensions, grade separations, design work and the construction of a rail station in Madera.
    — Laya Neelakandan, CNBC, 26 Aug. 2025
  • Already, the High-Speed Rail Authority, which has been building the embankments, bridges, tunnels and grade separations needed for the train over the last decade, like an overpass just completed in Fresno, has begun ordering steel and other materials needed to finally begin laying tracks.
    — Alan Ohnsman, Forbes.com, 13 Aug. 2025
  • During Monday’s Shafter council meeting, CHSRA representatives proposed adjustments intended to reduce construction time, interruptions, and costs by using grade separations, such as overpasses, instead of building a 35-foot wall along the rail line.
    — Daniel Orton, MSNBC Newsweek, 5 Nov. 2025

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