Sentences with phrase «much mass transit»

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Thomas Stringer, a site - selection manager at professional services firm BDO, said D.C. can satisfy much of Amazon's wish list, from quality of life to access to mass transit.

Yes a car SHOULD be non-essential, but too much of the country is to spread out for mass transit to be convenient or cost effective.

Cuomo said as much on Monday with reporters in New York City trying to pry details out of him on how he'll propose a system of fees for driving at peak hours in order to relieve congestion and help bolster mass transit.

President Obama has put little political capital behind his transportation objectives; Congress has yet to hammer out a new transportation bill; the Highway Trust Fund is nearing bankruptcy; Governor Andrew Cuomo has yet to take a position on Gateway, and hasn't shown much enthusiasm for transit in general, and Christie seemed to express his position on mass transit with the cancellation of ARC, which has been the subject of a very damaging report by the Government Accountability Office.

They chose not to give mass transit much of the proceeds from large settlements with banks after the financial crisis.

By Rockland County Executive Ed Day When the state started creating plans in 2000 to build a new Tappan Zee Bridge, many of us in Rockland County thought we would finally get the mass transit options that much of the New York metro area already enjoys.

Adams, Chair of Queens Community Board 12 and a former executive trainer, is challenging incumbent State Senator James Sanders, Jr. «Much of Southeast Queens is a transit desert and we must increase funding for mass transit and increase bus service to both make our streets safer and our city more livable,» said Adams.

When the state started creating plans in 2000 to build a new Tappan Zee Bridge, many of us in Rockland County thought we would finally get the mass transit options that much of the New York metro area already enjoys.

Yet over the years, he has developed a reputation among advocates for not caring much for mass transit, a reputation he now seems intent on changing.

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.

Though scientists can not directly measure the size or the mass of planets so far away, they can estimate the size based on how much light they block out during their transit across the star they orbit.

This planet joins a group of highly inflated transiting exoplanets with a radius much larger and a mass much less than those of Jupiter.

Even low - mass objects like planets can lens a source significantly, and so we can probe down into the very low - mass planet regime with this method and detect planets much smaller than current radial velocity or transit capabilities allow.

Unless you live in one of the older major cities, mostly in the east, you didn't have much opportunity in this country to hop on a subway train or ride a bus or use any other form of mass transit to get where you wanted.

Much of America does not have mass transit, to move up you have to have transportation.

Obsessed by public transport, like so many members of his seemingly socialist much - younger generation, the lad is a latter - day New Dealer, a boisterous supporter of government enterprises like mass transit and fire and police departments.

The new suitcases with smart «rollies» do not help much at mass transit stations or when it is necessary to climb three flights of stairs because the lift does not work.

My house is considerably smaller than 15,000 sq. ft. I confess I don't like adults who ride bicycles, but I use mass transit every workday and don't drive my car (not a SUV) much even on the weekends.

Insert, Nov. 25 Thanks to a Twitter reply by @bazzargh, a much earlier iteration of a photo set showing the benefits of mass transit, and in this case bicycles, has surfaced — created in 1991 by the city of Münster and blogged in Britain by Bikehub.co.uk.

And how much cleaner would the air be if more individuals used mass transit, walked or biked?

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.

They've done solid work with the goals of moving people faster and producing much - needed money for maintaining and upgrading mass transit.

Perhaps we spent too much time watching Monty Python movies and singing «Always look on the bright side of life,» but we thought that there was perhaps a good side to high gas prices, that people would change their habits to adapt, and suddenly the world would be filled with small efficient cars, lots of mass transit, all food would be locally grown and every new home would be New Urbanist or multifamily, mainly in reborn Buffaloes or Detroits with a bicycle in every garage and an organic chicken in every pot.

For the moment, the first three lines will be built as subway and light rail lines, which, because these technologies take much longer to build than BRT, means that a full metropolitan mass transit system is still at least a decade away.

What we need is a change in our transportation infrastructure, so that we have significantly fewer individual cars on the roads (replaced by modern mass transit like light - rail, bus rapid transit, separated bike paths, walkable neighborhoods, etc), and so that those that are there have much cleaner tailpipe emissions (hybrids like the AT - PZEV Prius are a step in the right direction, but we can do better).

Now just one more thing, how about using some of the income from the much needed carbon tax to finance energy efficient housing at mass transit stops.

Carpooling becomes much easier if you can arrange your schedule to fit with other people, similarly mass transit starts to look more appealing if you can start your workday when you arrive at work, and end it when your bus is ready to go.

The Asian Development Bank has called for» increasing energy efficiency and reducing reliance on fossil fuels; adopting a new approach to urbanisation by building more compact and eco-friendly cities; relying much more on mass transit for urban dwellers and railways for long - distance transport; and changing lifestyles to alleviate pressures on finite natural resources».

These changes are possible (the average Western European uses half as much energy as the average American while leading a quality life), but they will take real political leadership on issues ranging from mass transit to sprawl to the size of cars.

If you must bring your car to school, use mass transit as much as possible, live on campus if you can, and consider carpooling where possible.

So much for being smarter than 200 years of mass transit research.

«Prime suburbs represent an opportunity because they are generally a couple stops away from downtown on mass transit — so have walkability, etc. — and will not see as much construction.»

Meanwhile, according to the American Public Transportation Association, mass transit produces 95 percent less carbon monoxide, 90 percent less volatile organic compounds, and about half as much carbon dioxide as private vehicles.

These policies are becoming much more effective as more developers concentrate their energies on prime submarkets, such as bustling central business districts or towns and neighborhoods served by mass transit.