In Mr. Tierney's world, voters and passengers bear much of the blame for Sept. 11 -- because they failed to "demand" strict security.
Finally, airlines say, the fees on overweight bags, which typically are $25 to $50 depending on how much they go over the limit, are designed so that only a small percentage of passengers bear the financial burden.
For all their frustration, many of La Guardia's grounded passengers bore their discomfort with good cheer.
The current system fails those tests and this decision will further increase costs which ultimately are borne by all passengers.
Air safety is slightly different, because a crashing plane can kill people on the ground, but the greatest risks by far are borne by the passengers and crew.
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That will leave the already busy main entrance on Seventh Avenue under the Madison Square Garden marquee and, to a lesser extent, the Long Island Rail Road entryway on 34th Street, to bear the entire passenger flow into and out of the nation's busiest railroad station.
Many people know about the threatened polar bear and extinct passenger pigeon, but few have heard of endangered and extinct languages such as Eyak in Alaska, whose last speaker died in 2008, or Ubykh in Turkey, whose last fluent speaker died in 1992, says Tatsuya Amano, a zoologist at the University of Cambridge in the United Kingdom and lead author of the new study.
New York passengers already bear more of mass transit's costs than riders in other major cities.
Before Christmas he asked passengers to "bear with us over the Christmas period as we undertake this extensive improvement work to create a better railway for passengers and those living near to the railway line".
Airlines will receive about 85 percent of their permits at no charge, to make it affordable for the carriers and their passengers to bear the cost of the system while the industry develops ways of cutting pollution.
