Sentences with phrase «good public transit system»

A good public transit system is one of the best ways to get cars off roads and people into buses and trains.

A good public transit system will help to alleviate many of these potential problems, but this too must be well maintained to keep from falling into disarray and subsequently failing to serve its purpose.

But, imagine you could build a better public transit system inside New York that saves every metro passenger 10 minutes every trip.

At least, in areas where we don't have good public transit systems.

Not exact matches

While cities such as Boston and New York are well - known for their efficient public transit systems, both suffer from aging infrastructure and struggle to keep up with existing demand.

In the coming years, an adequate public transit system that is well prepared for population growth will be critical in ensuring a high quality of life and business competitiveness within Greater Vancouver.

The first phase requires that existing public transit systems brought up to a state of good repair, which — as commuters well know — could be a challenge with the current state of the subways.

I look forward to working with the MTA, Councilman Dromm, and other community leaders to ensure the line is safely repainted and that a functional public transit system does not come at the cost of our community's well - being.»

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Public transportation in Erie County is provided by the Niagara Frontier Transportation Authority which owns and operates Buffalo Niagara International Airport as well as an extensive bus and light rail transit system.

«While the MTA's capital security program has taken far longer and cost more than planned to complete, the regional transit system is more secure and the public better protected today,» DiNapoli said.

The study, part of the Gallup - Healthways State of American Well - Being Series, assigned an «Active Living» score to cities based on factors like walkability, bike - ability, the quality of the public transit system, and availability of well - maintained paWell - Being Series, assigned an «Active Living» score to cities based on factors like walkability, bike - ability, the quality of the public transit system, and availability of well - maintained pawell - maintained parks.

The town of Banff is easy to navigate on foot but, if you aren't feeling up to it, traveling within town is made easy with a public transit system (ROAM) that runs 3 different lines as well as a regional service to the neighbouring town of Canmore.

Even if Allan Savoy's method doesn't sequester as much carbon as stated, holistic management in concert with conservation, using hemp and other stocks for replacing trees and petrochemicals, ramped up public transit systems plus educating the public to conserve makes the most sense and could very well save our sorry asses.

Even one of the best metro systems in the states is inadequate; if we're not meeting even current needs, talk of a golden era of free public transit subsidized by drivers seems silly to me.

(I come from Boston which has good public transit and I was impressed with what i experienced of the system in SF.)

And through conversations with others in the growing climate justice movement, I began to see all kinds of ways that climate change could become a catalyzing force for positive change — how it could be the best argument progressives have ever had to demand the rebuilding and reviving of local economies; to reclaim our democracies from corrosive corporate influence; to block harmful new free trade deals and rewrite old ones; to invest in starving public infrastructure like mass transit and affordable housing; to take back ownership of essential services like energy and water; to remake our sick agricultural system into something much healthier; to open borders to migrants whose displacement is linked to climate impacts; to finally respect Indigenous land rights — all of which would help to end grotesque levels of inequality within our nations and between them.

But more recently, transit providers everywhere have realized that by unlocking their data, they can gain access to a vast network of developers and thinkers who will take on the task of creating websites, publications, iPhone apps and any number of other systems for helping people use public transit better.

Although I believe that public legal education alone is not going to help litigants transit the justice system, I recognize the immensity of the inertia that inclines us toward the status quo and I acknowledge that there are very good, sensible reasons why the system is the way it is, despite my inclination toward burning it all down and starting over.

Many cities, like NYC, have full generations of residents who have NEVER had a license, because it's simply not practical to drive in a city that charges what most of us pay for a mortgage just for have a good parking space, there is nowhere to park if you drive away from your high - priced spot, traffic with the cab's is nuts, and the public transit system goes everywhere that you can not walk to.

With movement analysis, transit surveys, a visual data studio, a cloud - based bus locator, and a trip planner API, Moovit wants to give cities the ability to better plan their public transportation systems by letting them know where people are going, how they're getting there, and how they feel about it.

A Transportation Infrastructure Finance Innovation Act loan of $ 292 million, in combination with previously issued and authorized general airport bond revenues would make available the funds to finance an $ 884 million multi-modal development project that would consolidate rental car functions as well as public parking into a multi-level structure and provide for an extension of the Airport Transit System (ATS) at O'Hare.

It's close to Boston, public transit, local highways and one of the best public school systems in the state.

Ottawa has a fairly large public transit system, which means lower priced housing outside of downtown can still demand good rents if it's near a bus stop.

It's a good thing Philly is a very walkable city, because parking is a pain and the public transit system is spotty at best.