"It's considered 'city-fringe', so it's close enough to town, the beach, public transit and lots of great local food," he said.
Newness was everywhere: a new subway stop under construction in Leblon, new umbrellas on the beach, new rapid-transit bus stations.
"It's not a dead end or a beach; it's a busy transit district.
But the figure sitting down on the pavement, with a suppliant crouching beside her, is exempt from the flow; she has parked herself in a deckchair as if she were at the beach, not in a harried place of transit.
This exists just as much as my mother exists and public transit exists and apples, the solar system, triangles, and beach towels.
This exists just as much as my mother exists and public transit exists – and apples, the solar system, triangles and beach towels.' Why do I have to treat scary diseases differently than anything else?
Mr. Blair, the Metro-North riders' representative, said he was concerned that off-peak riders who use the railroads for beach jaunts and family weekend trips could be discouraged from using mass transit.
The beach town experience meets urban environment when you travel on the newly completed rapid transit line, ATI (Alternativa de Transport Integrado), which runs 15 miles from San Juan to Bayamón, Puerto Rico's second largest city.
What's gone stale is the enforced marriage with the automobile, a radical monopoly that affords very few transit options for getting to work or to school, to the mall or the beach.
After a two-hour-plus ride from Pennsylvania Station on New Jersey Transit ($12.50 one way for adults), visitors have an eight-minute walk to the beach, with the shops of downtown two minutes in the opposite direction.
