Sentences with phrase «city transit takes»

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The good news, Ms. Schuetz said, is that the steps cities should be taking to prepare for Amazon are largely the steps they should be taking anyway, like improving transit systems and easing regulations that make it hard to build in the places people want to live.

The following cities have more workers telecommuting than taking public transit:

«Whether you're using mass transit for your morning commute, taking an e-bike for a mid-day meeting, using Pool to take a ride home or renting a car for the weekend,» Khosrowshahi said at the press event in D.C. today, «we want Uber to be there with you and we want to partner with cities to be part of our solution moving forward.»

Liberal government pledges to reduce to $ 3 the fares for all GO Transit trips that are either less than 10 kilometres or are taken within the city of Toronto, and wants to being talks about the province taking ownership of the subway.

Just the other Friday, my wife and I took BART — the San Francisco Bay Area's rapid transit system — into «The City» to meet tourist - friends for dinner.

Gov. Andrew Cuomo has been criticized for his handling of the transit problems, but has also called for the city to take on more of a role in funding transit.

The majority of outer - borough residents take mass transit to their jobs, with 31 percent going into Manhattan and another 25 percent to other areas of the city.

«New York City is home to some of the most gridlocked streets in the nation and with this new advisory panel, we take a major step forward in coming up with a real solution to tackle the issue of congestion while helping to fund mass transit moving forward,» Cuomo said.

New York City Transit Authority President Thomas Prendergast has in the past taken the reins when Lhota has been out of town, but ultimately the decision will fall to Gov. Cuomo to appoint a replacement.

The two fought bitterly last year when the governor leaned on the city to cough up several billion more to finance the Metropolitan Transportation Authority — which resulted in Mr. de Blasio capitulating to take an additional $ 2.5 billion for the transit system onto the city's ledgers.

New York City transit riders might have taken some small measure of satisfaction from the sight of Carl Kruger resigning from the State Senate earlier this week.

New York City Mayor Bill de Blasio on Sunday called on the state government — including Gov. Andrew Cuomo — take responsibility for the ailing subway system, escalating a contentious debate over blame for the crumbling of mass transit.

After a series of explosions rocked the airport and a metro station in Brussels this morning, killing at least 30 and wounding scores of others, city and transit agencies across the U.S. beefed up patrols, taking similar measures to those in the wake of the Paris terror attacks last fall.

In 1990, Bratton took over New York City's transit police and was credited with giving officers 9 - mm handguns.

Gov. Andrew Cuomo is taking a rare trip to Washington, DC today amid a growing transit crisis in New York City.

But the news is alarming environmental groups and mass transit advocates who say the city and state must invest in transportation options that take cars off the streets.

He also said she would raise the minimum wage across the nation, reduce students» college debt and take on issues particular to cities — affordable housing, mass transit, repairing roads and bridges, policing reform and immigration reform.

«The average guy on the street, the average guy who wants to take mass transit or have good ways to get into the city, will benefit from this.»

The borough is the most Republican - leaning in the city; it is the whitest borough, though it is becoming increasingly diverse, and home to people who drive rather than take sparse public transit and own homes rather than rent apartments.

The city would take a 20 to 40 percent cut of the sales proceeds to fund transit and public infrastructure improvements.

Forward - thinking city planners, knowing that more and more drivers and cars are taking to the roads every day, are loathe to encourage more private automobiles when mass transit options are so much better for people and the environment.

There's no way I could run around this city taking public transit while wearing heels.

However, I do not own a car, and parking is pricey in Baltimore, so I prefer to take public transit to get to Charm City.

And he Anyone who's ever had to take public transit knows that seeing weird subway people or the occasional oddball character is par for the course of city life.

Anyone who's ever had to take public transit knows that seeing weird subway people or the occasional oddball character is par for the course of city life.

Plainspoken and witty, it qualifies as social history, film theory, personal reverie, architectural history and criticism, a bittersweet meditation on automotive transport, a critical history of mass transit in southern California, a wisecracking compilation of local folklore, «a city symphony in reverse,» and a song of nostalgia for lost neighborhoods such as Bunker Hill and unchronicled lifestyles such as those of locals who walk or take buses.

No Time to Lose: The Making of The Taking of Pelham 1 2 3 runs 30 minutes, 25 seconds and includes comments from Scott, Helgeland, Black, associate producer Don Ferrarone, NYPD Hostage Negotiation Team commanding officer Lt. Jack Cambria, MTA New York City Transit Director of Film and Special Events Alberteen Anderson, production designer Chris Seagers, executive producer Barry Waldman, RTO supervisor Joseph Grodzinsky, train service supervisor Tony Annarumma, stunt coordinator Chuck Picerni, associate producer / 1st AD John Wildermuth, and actors Denzel Washington, John Travolta, John Turturro, Victor Gojcaj, and Robert Vataj.

On June 3, 2016, during the 8th U.S. - China Transportation Forum in Los Angeles, U.S. Department of Transportation (DOT) and China's Ministry of Transport (MOT) jointly announced the R2ZE Challenge and called to action cities / transit agencies to take measurable steps to reduce transit fleet bus greenhouse gas and air pollutant emissions through increased deployment and operation of ZEBs.

Americans — young Americans especially — increasingly choose to live in cities and bike, walk, or take transit, rather than drive, to get where they are going.

CALSTART is eager to begin working with cities and transit properties that not only want to take full advantage of the advances in zero emission bus technology, but also wanted to become part of a larger global effort to prevent climate change,» said CALSTART President and CEO, John Boesel.

Ram has taken the wraps off the ProMaster City, Fiat Chrysler Automobiles» answer to the Ford Transit Connect, the Chevrolet City Express and the Nissan NV200.

I think taking the train down from the «burbs was most fun part of my trip since I used to live here and take own car all the time, fighting for parking, fighting for traffic... This time no fighting, and free wi - fi to boot — actually got work done in transit vs. white - knuckling it in and out of the city...

Once unpacked, take one of the free guided tours offered by the city (reserve ahead via www.visitseoul.net), then hit Seoul's cheap, efficient and English - signposted subway system with a T - money transit card.

If you're on your own, you'll have to find your way around, taking public transit or taxis and trains or buses from city to city.

So we had planned on parking outside the city, and taking a New Jersey Transit train to Manhattan.

Cats to Compete for New Yorkers» Hearts and Eyes as City Transit Buses Take On a «Feline» Look

The central area transit blue cat bus will take you from the complex into the city area and Northbridge.

This is good news for beach goers who don't want to transit through Panama City but it does mean that Farallón Beach is subject to the sound of the odd plane taking off and landing.

Reacting to radical changes taking place internationally in the late»80s and early»90s, these shows — «In Transit,» «The Final Frontier,» and «Trade Routes» — posed questions about globalization's social, economic, cultural, and intellectual exchanges, and grappled with issues as wide - reaching as neoliberal capitalism and as specific as the situations facing individual cities.

Hope that a lot of the mid-tier cities can take a leaf out of their bigger cousins and make the right investments in mass transit.

What concerns me is less the mechanics of the transition — the shift from brown to green energy, from sole - rider cars to mass transit, from sprawling exurbs to dense and walkable cities — than the power and ideological roadblocks that have so far prevented any of these long understood solutions from taking hold on anything close to the scale required.

We Americans could use a lot less energy with better housing and with denser cities (walkable, electrified public transit), though of course building new buildings takes energy of its own.

«New York City is home to some of the most gridlocked streets in the nation and with this new advisory panel, we take a major step forward in coming up with a real solution to tackle the issue of congestion while helping to fund mass transit moving forward,» the governor said in a statement.

Even though the area had worse health outcomes and fewer transit options than many other parts of the City, a disproportionately lower number of Bedford Stuyvesant residents were taking advantage of the mobility and health benefits of bike share.

Take a small example: Moving away from internal - combustion automobiles and trucks means more than just swapping in electric vehicles and expanding public transit; it also means building the infrastructure to support the new transportation system (chargers, added bus lines, additional electric power plants), retraining the people whose livelihoods were based on maintaining conventional vehicles, changing how cities are laid out and much more.

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Since then, they've systematically reached the entire city with a friendly, successful campaign to help people bike (and walk & take transit) more often.

The easiest solutions are to have cities where it is much easier and safer to walk, bike, and take transit.

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If you live in a city, choose a place to which guests can walk or bike easily, take public transit, or at least catch a taxi easily.