Sentences with phrase «with city transit»

Looking for a position as a Bus Driver with City Transit.

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The problem is that city and local governments may be hesitant to accept liability for the risks the tunnels may pose to existing infrastructure or let private companies compete with public transit systems.

When it opened this year in Chicago, for example, it worked with a partner to turn a Chicago Transit Authority bus into a mobile market selling organic foods in the city's south and west sides.

Austin infrastructure is strong with an international airport and, unlike other large Texas cities, a strong public transit system.

Both Hudak and the magazine referred to problems with the city's transit.

As Altamonte Springs City Manager Marts told Curbed, «Seemed to us, if you can order a pizza using your cell phone, or transfer funds with [your] cell phone, you should be able to order a transit trip.

Both companies have been criticized, however, for not opening up their data to cities and not providing transit agencies with information that would help officials gauge the services» impact on transportation.

The West Philadelphia sites, on the other hand, are closer to the city amenities that Amazon plainly wants nearby — neighborhoods with varying housing stock, transit links, university campuses, cultural attractions — but also are crammed among them, said Bill Luff, founder of the commercial real estate consultancy CRE Visions.

A massive, long - range infrastructure commitment on the part of the federal govt to support building / rebuliding highways and bridges, interstate train service and hi - speed rail, city mass transit systems, and ports and airports, over minimum 10 years and even better 20, with requirement that majority of manufactured metal components be US - made.

The Canadian Global Cities Council, a coalition of Canada's eight largest urban regional chambers of commerce, is calling for airport policy reform to align Canada with global best practices, and for our international airports to be factored into transit infrastructure planning by all levels of government.

In the race to win this prize, Philadelphia's transit system is one of its selling points, said Adie Tomer, a Brookings Institute fellow with expertise in city infrastructure.

For people living in rural areas, where wait times for driverless Uber or any kind of public transit are completely unreasonable, yet don't have money to burn an extra $ 10k on their car to make it autonomous, will continue to buy old - fashioned human - driven cars with gas pedals and steering wheels long into the future — and will not accept not being able to drive their cars into cities.

Unfortunately, with Christy Clark playing endless transit funding games with the mayors of Metro Vancouver, at this rate commuters in other cities will wait for years before they see the buses and trains required to reduce gridlock and traffic.»

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.

«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.»

Horgan said Christy Clark's refusal to come to the table and offer a substantial partnership with cities and the federal government will only cause more delays of badly needed transit infrastructure.

New York City Transit Boosts Network Security, Streamlines Information Access with Novell Identity Manager

But unlike the transit hub, built largely with federal transportation money, the church is being funded through donations including from the Greek government, Greek Orthodoxchurch members around the world, the Roman Catholic Archdiocese of Boston and the Italian city of Bari, whose patron saint is St Nicholas.

It may sound redundant on the heels of Thanksgiving, but for Thanksgiving this year we were graced with airport and airline food as we were in transit home from a trip to New York City.

He's got other issues to answer for, especially with mass transit in New York City.

New York City commuters are dealing with transit issues on multiple fronts this summer, including delays and derailments on the MTA - run subway system and track upgrades at Penn Station causing further problems for Long Island - bound travelers.

New York City Mayor Bill de Blasio has proposed a tax increase to help bolster transit, which is considered dead on arrival with both the governor and Senate Republicans.

Finding ways of funding mass transit has been a key issue for lawmakers this legislative session amid ongoing problems with the New York City subway system.

With a modernization plan due soon from the new head of the MTA's New York City Transit division and another five - year MTA capital plan looming, all signs point to the governor asking the city to yet again allocate additional funds toward the state - controlled City Transit division and another five - year MTA capital plan looming, all signs point to the governor asking the city to yet again allocate additional funds toward the state - controlled city to yet again allocate additional funds toward the state - controlled MTA.

Though Rodriguez kept the Transportation Committee chair, with oversight over public transit and city DOT matters, he was livid that he lost power over for - hire vehicles, Council sources said.

City officials, Cuomo and lawmakers have blamed each other while the country's largest mass transit system continues to languish, forcing commuters to put up with chronic delays, breakdowns and service interruptions.

Local elected officials, including City Council Majority Leader Jimmy Van Bramer have lined up behind the Mayor: «Mayor de Blasio's forward thinking proposal promises to provide more Queens and Brooklyn residents with a new reliable transit option,» said Jimmy Van Bramer in 2016 press release.

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.

De Blasio had three nominees pending with the Senate to serve on the state - run authority, which manages transit — buses, subways, trains, bridges and tunnels — in New York City and surrounding areas including, Long Island: David Jones, a leader with the nonprofit Community Service Society who has advocated reduced transit fares for low - income New Yorkers; Manhattan Councilman Ydanis Rodriguez, who chairs the chamber's Transportation Committee; and Veronica Vanterpool, director of the Tri-State Transportation Campaign and a member of the MTA's «reinvention» commission.

Cuomo is seemingly on board with the idea; so is Andy Byford, the new president of New York City Transit, who recently told City and State that if congestion pricing can «help expedite the pace of improvements and make the system work better» then «I'm all for it.»

ALBANY — Sen. Jeff Klein (D - Bronx) emerged from a meeting with legislative leaders and Gov. Andrew Cuomo saying more funding for mass transit and crumbling public housing in New York City are part of a «tentative deal» on the state budget.

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.

«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.

Cuomo backed a congestion pricing as a means of funding the ailing mass transit and subway system in New York City, criticism of which for him reached a boiling point with strap hangers amid a series of delays and disruptions last summer.

The city added that its study would not be limited to Uber, but that it would also study the taxi and car - hail industries more broadly, «with a particular focus on revenue for public transit, consumer protections, driver and employee protections, and accessibility for people with disabilities.»

Although a wide - range of topics were discussed, such as mass transit options and Hurricane Sandy recovery, one local issue raised had to do with the recent snow storm and its lackluster response from the city.

Mr. Katz cited the example of transportation funding in Los Angeles, where former mayor Antonio Villaraigosa worked with mayors of nearby cities to get Washington to vastly expand federal transportation loans to cities like his, and then supplemented that federal funding with a sales tax hike devoted to funding regional transit.

State Senator Jeff Klein, together with the New York City Housing Authority, Throggs Neck Houses Residents» Council, 45th Precinct, the New York City Fire Department, Police Service Area # 8, and the New York City Transit Police, will host the first annual Throggs Neck Houses Basketball Tournament this weekend.

In her recommendations, the former Chair of the New York City Council Land Use Committee (2002 - 09) cited several concerns with the proposals, namely the impermanence of senior affordable housing, the effect of eliminating parking for residents in a transit desert like Queens, the scores of extensive contextual rezonings previously issued throughout the five boroughs, and the insufficiencies in skilled labor commitments.

«I am excited to work with him on initiatives to improve and expand transit service to the City's traditionally underserved communities,» Samuelsen added.

Siena pollster Steve Greenberg attributed Cuomo's declining ratings to the problems with the subway system and mass transit in New York City.

When Mr. Miller showed me the reply to his letter to Ms. Quinn, dated December 6, 22012, it yet again contradicts her initial letter to me from six years ago, suggesting that her office can not help me, despite an incomplete investigation by DOI investigators, intimating that the Transit Authority is a state governed agency (I maintained a CITY pension with New York City Employees» Retirement System, and the agency that I worked for is the MTA New York City Transit).

But the upstagings and rank - pullings kept coming — from Cuomo's blindsiding of de Blasio with an Ebola quarantine to a last - minute request for $ 1 billion more in city transit funding to sudden inspections of city homeless shelters — and the rewards kept diminishing.

With advocates clamoring for more MTA funding, the mayor said it was up to Albany — not the city — to help plug the transit agency's budget gap.

The Department of City Planning, seeking to find «a balance,» recommended May 22 that the city issue a 15 - year permit, one that would allow Madison Square Garden to obtain a permit «in perpetuity» if it reaches agreements with the three rail agencies that use Penn Station — Amtrak, New Jersey Transit and the MTA — to improve accessibility at the transit hub, which serves more than 600,000 passengers a City Planning, seeking to find «a balance,» recommended May 22 that the city issue a 15 - year permit, one that would allow Madison Square Garden to obtain a permit «in perpetuity» if it reaches agreements with the three rail agencies that use Penn Station — Amtrak, New Jersey Transit and the MTA — to improve accessibility at the transit hub, which serves more than 600,000 passengers a city issue a 15 - year permit, one that would allow Madison Square Garden to obtain a permit «in perpetuity» if it reaches agreements with the three rail agencies that use Penn Station — Amtrak, New Jersey Transit and the MTA — to improve accessibility at the transit hub, which serves more than 600,000 passengersTransit and the MTA — to improve accessibility at the transit hub, which serves more than 600,000 passengerstransit hub, which serves more than 600,000 passengers a day.

With so many scandals of corruption that effect and relate to constituents like me who have practically had to beg for proper representation with regard to honest, ethical city and state government leadership, I should not have to lose my pension, present and future because of false, fake and failed leadership — and the very public representatives who have collectively been the obstacle to fair labor practices and treatment, that now overshadow any corruption and misconduct by the Transit Authority and With so many scandals of corruption that effect and relate to constituents like me who have practically had to beg for proper representation with regard to honest, ethical city and state government leadership, I should not have to lose my pension, present and future because of false, fake and failed leadership — and the very public representatives who have collectively been the obstacle to fair labor practices and treatment, that now overshadow any corruption and misconduct by the Transit Authority and with regard to honest, ethical city and state government leadership, I should not have to lose my pension, present and future because of false, fake and failed leadership — and the very public representatives who have collectively been the obstacle to fair labor practices and treatment, that now overshadow any corruption and misconduct by the Transit Authority and MTA.

The jury includes three people in nursing, a transit employee, a campus recruiter, an employee with the New York City Education Department, a salesman, a preschool teacher, a cabdriver, an office manager and a technician.

As part of his ongoing rift with de Blasio, Cuomo reportedly has told his top police executives to pull investigators from various state and federal task forces and dispatch them — in uniform — to the city's high - profile transit hubs to boost the state's profile there.

Even though their ridership is nowhere near the Big Apple's, upstate New York's largest public transit face many of the same challenges their big - city counterparts at the MTA deal with on a regular basis, including aging infrastructure and increased demand for service.

As New York City contends with a fraying subway system, focus is turned to upstate lawmakers in Albany, who are not as familiar with mass transit as their downstate counterparts.