Or vote to finance a transit system.
That assurance is heartening for a transit system in dire need of expansion.
Power to the track was shut off moments later, said Paul Fleuranges, a transit system spokesman.
And Kerrie Kemperman, a graduate student from Somerville, said: "It's a transit system.
Opponents took the money and poured much of it into a transit system then near collapse.
"There is not a transit system in the world that can operate profitably in the commercial sense," Mr. Warrington said.
As a result, she said, commuters encounter a transit system with differing levels of service and lacking uniform practices.
To get to the archives, I would travel by "jeepney", a transit system originally based on repurposed US army jeeps.
And some simply felt no obligation to pay for a transit system plagued by unreliable service and constant fare increases.
A spokesman for the mayor, Ben Sarle, said on Thursday that New Yorkers deserved a transit system that worked.
"When you're 50, you're still active," said Tom Prendergast, a former L.I.R.R. president who is now running a transit system in Canada.
