Muni and AC Transit rely on an "extra board," a group of on-call bus drivers who fill in if a driver is late or absent.
Palestinian bus bombers should be called "bus bombers".
"When I started calling bus companies, though, they told me, 'It's Oscar week,' " he said.
The long, segmented, low-emission buses are part of a novel public transportation system called bus rapid transit, or B.R.T.
Mr. Gatto works in a style that might be called "bus terminal semi-realism," evoking the slice-of-life paintings Norman Rockwell once produced for The Saturday Evening Post.
He had created a prime-time television series called "Bus Stop," modeled after William Inge's Broadway hit of the same title.
Such systems are called bus rapid transit, and the cost to build them is $1 million to $2 million per mile, Ms. Byron says, compared with $1 billion per mile for the Second Avenue subway.
Despite its radically different aesthetic, Elite Squad is a companion piece to Padilha's previous film, a documentary called Bus 174, which showed how poverty and institutional brutality turns small time thieves into violent criminals.
A cartoonish way with the human figure runs throughout, from a primordial warrior painted in staccato strokes by Leon Golub from 1968; to a super-realistic sculpture of a frumpy woman, called "Bus Stop Lady" (1983), by Duane Hanson; to a hermaphroditic business professional doing something unspeakable to his/her own body in a 2006 painting by Carroll Dunham.
Using empirical data from Sydney, Australia, we show that the widely used Poisson model overestimates the probability of stopping in an on-call bus stopping regime, and consequently underestimates the optimal number of bus stops that should be designed.
The long strip waveguide filled with silica in the silver pad is called bus waveguide.
