Sentences with phrase «more subway lines»

In the big cities like Shanghai where I lived for my last 10 years in China there are also more and more subway lines that get you across town much quicker and smoother and without the crazy traffic jams that often clog up the streets.

Last, an average of 20 percent of the stations in the core link two or more subway lines, allowing people to make transfers.

Not exact matches

It was another miserable morning on New York City's subway after delays snarled more than a dozen lines today, with an antiquated signal system blamed for many of the problems.

While the MTA is undertaking a $ 836 million emergency plan to reverse the New York City subway's precipitous slide, an equally consequential crisis has been brewing aboard the city's public buses, which provide more than 725 million rides a year and reach places that are not close to a subway line.

London has already installed a computerized signal network on four of its 10 main subway lines, with work is underway on four more.

For years, the promise of a Second Avenue subway line has tantalized residential developers who have been hungrily eying the stretch of the Upper East... [more]

After the streetcar proposal was announced, critics were outspoken about potential pitfalls, questioning whether improvements to Select Bus Service, Bus Rapid Transit, or subway lines would be more efficient or effective.

She was asking de Blasio why he did not do more to fix the city's subways, and the line received long and lively cheers from the crowd.

«More recently, Joe got our subways on line after Sandy,» Giuliani says of Lhota, who stepped down as head of the MTA to enter the three - way GOP primary.

In a city weaved together by more than two dozen subway lines, no train comes within walking distance of the 75 - year - old airport, a gap in the system which has frustrated and puzzled generations of New Yorkers.

Millions of Queens residents have long - deserved a more reliable mass transit experience, and capital projects like the full reconstruction of the Jamaica Bus Depot, signal modernization along the E, F, M and R lines and complete renovations of 16 Queens subway stations are absolutely critical.

Gale A. Brewer, the Manhattan borough president, said she noticed Mr. de Blasio adopting a more enthusiastic tone toward Mr. Bloomberg at the opening of a new station for the No. 7 subway line in September.

At 110 steps, 200 feet long, and 35 feet wide, the W. 215th Step Street connects a residential section of Inwood to Broadway, a more commercial street with subway access (1 subway line).

More from Richard T. Jameson for Movietone News «The film has the precision and intricacy of a Mission: Impossible assignment and director Joseph Sargent meets the challenge with a style that connects multiple locations through phone calls, radio signals, and subway communications lines with an impressive clarity.

The young fellow campaigning against the encrusted council member is running on a single issue: the extension of the Monorail, holding that his opponent is in the pocket of the contractors who want to build more roads and extend the subway line, thereby increasing pollution and shafting the poor neighborhoods.

There is nothing more frustrating than getting lost on an unfamiliar subway line.

Close... read more to two subway line that go to almost every main spots in London, which was very useful.

Also nearby are Wall Street, the New York Stock Exchange, the Freedom Tower, Battery Park, and the Brooklyn Bridge, and many more renowned destinations can be reached via nearby subway lines.

For the Citi ThankYou Premier card, the list is more expansive: «purchases at airlines, hotels, car rental agencies, travel agencies / travel aggregators / tour operators, gas stations, commuter transportation, ferries, commuter railways, subways, taxis / limousines / car services, passenger railways, cruise lines, bridge and road tolls, parking lots / garages, campgrounds and trailer parks, timeshares, bus lines, motor home / recreational vehicle rentals and boat leases and rentals.»

For somewhere more central, The Farm in SoHo is easily accessible from all major subway lines.

This is not to mention more ad - hoc ventures like the colourful, post-election transformation of NYC subway stations lined with Post-it notes, each one an affirmation of the city's commitment to inclusiveness.

The Political Line will feature more than 170 works of art, including large - scale paintings on tarpaulins and canvases, sculptures, and a number of the artist's subway drawings.

Five subway lines have been built since 1999, and four more are slated to open in the next several years.

seems theres more going for improving transit now in nyc than probably anytime since the opening of the first subway line in 1904.

Several more lines are in the development stage, and all will be integrated with the city's new subway lines.

In a country where the roads are the major public works projects in most places, upgrading bus lines to BRT technology could prove to be a more efficient transit solution than building light rails and subways, which require new and expensive infrastructures of their own.

In 2009, the average Baltimore resident paid about $ 500 more a year for a car insurance premium than the national average, which may make you want to consider taking advantage of the city's bus network, light rail, or subway lines.