Sentences with phrase «riding city buses»

Last year, my son and I rode the city bus downtown on the MLK holiday, and I told him the story of the Montgomery Bus Boycott — the story that made King famous and won him the Nobel Peace Prize.

So what if I would rather collect my well fare check, head down to the Piggly Wiggly and buy me a box of slim jims to snap into, then ride a city bus back to my rent controlled apartment so I can use someone elses wireless connection to get on the internet so I can complain about Obama giving those other people, you know, them dark skinned ones, lot's of stuff they don't deserve.

I decided to ride the city bus into Seattle this day... solely for the purpose of getting boba tea, but I ended...

Einstein argues it does provide free transportation by giving them tokens to ride city buses to and from school.

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He rides a whale of a charter bus to work, which blocks your dinky city transit trolley as it attempts to enter its legally designated space.

Not surprisingly, this bus route has one of the lowest ridership rates in the city; but then why ride the Red Rocket, as Torontonian lovingly call their transit system, when you can rocket around in the latest Ferrari?

(My sister rode a bus to a church on Long Island outside of New York City.)

Once in New York City, when an old church building was being demolished to make way for a new one, a man riding past the ruined structure on a bus said to a friend, «This is the first time in years that I have seen the inside of a church.»

If one rides the downtown bus in one of our large cities through the slum areas in which children play in dirty alleys behind saloons, and then passes a housing project with clean, sunlit yards.

The next day, we woke up early to catch the 5 A.M. train to Aguas Calientes, the city at the bottom of Machu Picchu and the starting point to the twenty minute bus ride up the mountain.

city shut down the B84 was our only good ride to the grocery store paycheck goes to the glucose strip patience goes to the 95 minute bus trip 30 hour week — I wish they'd give me more and I wonder what it's all for when I can't feed my baby no more

But then one time, while riding a crowded city bus at 8 months pregnant, carrying a laptop on one shoulder and heavy books on the other, it took three stops and me shouting obscenities at the other passengers for someone to finally offer up their seat (out of fear).

Perfect for any Chicago Toddler, these trains and bus look just like the ones they ride and see in the city every day!

New York wants there to be a smaller terminal in Times Square and a second terminal built on the Jersey side, but Sweeney and the current Jersey crop oppose that because they don't want New Jersey commuters to have to make two stops on their ride into the City, also known as a «two - seat bus ride.»

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 lCity 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 lcity's public buses, which provide more than 725 million rides a year and reach places that are not close to a subway line.

But if you're riding the bus to a public high school here in the City of Buffalo and it's your only mode of transportation, you don't ride the bus by choice.

In New York City, ride - hailing apps have given rise to concerns over congestion as fewer people are taking buses and the subway.

The governor has hired a bus, emblazoned with campaign style slogans, which he's been riding for partial journeys from New York City to upstate, disembarking for rallies.

To keep residents riding the rails and to win more drivers» hearts, Chinese cities are using various incentives and disincentives, as politicians promise to increase urban rail systems threefold and bus rapid transit 10-fold by 2015

She traveled unchaperoned to strange cities, took motorcycle rides through the Pyrenees, got on random buses just to see where they went went.

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.

So when I passed this article reporting that the US city most populated with sugar daddies is San Francisco, California, I laughed to myself and wondered exactly how long a bus ride to California is.

Brighton is on the edge of the UK's newest national park, and a short bus ride can take you from the seafront and city centre into the park, giving you the opportunity to get to know each other on the way.

He said to me once that as a kid in Mexico City he used to ride this bus with his mother and siblings.

Nonetheless, curiosity gets the better of Bliss, so one day she surreptitiously hitches a ride from Bodeen to the big city on a Bingo bus full of senior citizens.

To escape the confines of the city, they ride on the top of a double - decker bus, taking the spiraling accessway up the back of the bus to get there (with a few tasteless gags about peering up their dates» dresses).

The city can be reached by riding a bus from the town.

To find open space in classrooms, children ride buses across the city, sometimes for more than an hour each way.

Just a few days later black people across the city stopped riding the bus.

The city's Sandtown - Winchester neighborhood, where Gray lived and where I grew up many years ago, had been on my mind a lot during the days leading up to the trip, and I felt distant as we boarded the bus and started our ride to the church from downtown.

Many parents let their 12 - year - olds ride a train or city bus or a bike to school or a friend's house; some even let their 10 - year - olds do so.

Bowers's students spent a morning planting trees in a city park, and they made and distributed several hundred bookmarks that list steps even children can take to protect the environment — things like turning off the lights or taking the school bus instead of getting a ride from Mom or Dad.

Seoul, it seemed the whole city was Hyundai - related - I rode on a Hyundai bus, stayed at the Hyundai hotel, watched a Hyundai television.

A Romanian city has just unveiled a new program to get people reading, free bus rides.

A young boy and his mother take a familiar ride on a city bus unaware of the historic event they are about to witness: passenger Rosa Parks refusing to move from her seat.

I'd get up early to catch a train to Walton - on - Thames and then the bus along the high street to the red - brick Victorian fortress, where I'd stamp and shelve books all day, and then reverse the journey, riding back into the city on half - empty trains running against the commute.

You could use Newleaf as an alternative method of transport to the big cities (just take a 90 - minute bus ride from Hamilton to downtown Toronto, for example.)

Library Trailheads In summer 2016, visit the trailheads at seven libraries throughout the city to discover activities and events in the parks; learn how to get free shuttle bus rides from libraries to park sites; and find the best reads about parks, the outdoors, and adventure.

Trains operate from the city centre to Bondi Junction, which is a 10 minute bus or taxi ride from the beach.

Library Trailheads In summer 2016, visit the trailheads at eight libraries throughout the city to discover activities and events in the parks; learn how to get free shuttle bus rides to park sites; and find the best reads about parks, the outdoors, and adventure.

From Manila, this place is an overnight bus ride away and is a popular spot for those who want to get away from the city.

And though Uber taxis has made an impact, visitors can still hail a London black cab, or ride in a red London bus, and easily navigate the city with a highly intricate (if sometimes crowded) underground tube network.

Public transport has greatly improved in recent years, linking downtown by fast and frequent bus with Hollywood, Beverly Hills, Westwood and the beach hubs of Venice and Santa Monica, while the Metro runs east to Pasadena and north to the entertainment hub of Universal City at lower prices than Londoners have to pay for Tube rides.

Morelia is only a 4 - to 5 - hour first - class bus ride from Ixtapa / Zihuatanejo, so you can easily combine a beach holiday with cultural city attractions

Getting from Belize City to Punta Gorda is a comfortable and scenic four - hour car ride, or five and a half hours by bus.

Ride up on a tourist bus, to the Incan City of Machu Picchu, Wonder of the Modern World, located among abrupt mountains and almost inaccessible places, presenting a set of houses, squares, stairways, towers, walls, water fountains, ceremonial places, such as the Intiwatana (Solar observatory), sacred temples and benched terraces, with an incredible urban harmony, displaying the Incan engineering's high level of development.

Tourist bus ride up to the Incan City of Machu Picchu, Wonder of the Modern World, located among abrupt mountains and almost inaccessible places, presenting a set of houses, squares, stairways, towers, walls, water fountains, ceremonial places, such as the Intiwatana (Solar observatory), sacred temples and benched terraces, with an incredible urban harmony, displaying the Incan engineering's high level of development.

For tourists staying in San Pedro, they take a short flight or boat ride over to the mainland to board a van or bus and taken to the caves located only an hour away from Belize City.

If you are feeling a bit more adventurous, take the 2 hour bus ride to Bayawan city.

A short bus ride from the city centre you will find the Trafford Centre.