TS Eliot in the early 20th century looked at the commuters crossing London Bridge and was reminded of the swirling hordes of the damned in Dante's Inferno: A crowd flowed over London bridge, so many, I had not thought death had undone so many.
Maryland's eastern shore remained virtually unchanged from Revolutionary War times until the 1950s when the region began to grow vigorously, with second home buyers, retirees and commuters crossing the Chesapeake Bay Bridge.
Each day, around 20,000 commuters cross the Oresund bridge, which connects the Swedish cities Malmo and Lund to Copenhagen.
Around 15,000 commuters cross the strait between Sweden and Denmark every day and there are worries that businesses in Sweden's Skane region and in Copenhagen will be hit.
The Globe has always covered its neighbor to the north, given that commuters cross the state line each day and much of New Hampshire is part of the greater Boston area media market.
The previous tunnel project had been estimated to cost $8.7 billion and would have doubled the capacity for commuter trains crossing the river.
The company told riders it could not afford to run in winter, when its year-round, tourist-friendly ferry lines around Manhattan were too short on business to subsidize the not-yet-profitable commuter line crossing the East River.
After the Valley Forge interchange the turnpike is designated as I-276 and becomes a six-lane road serving as a suburban commuter highway, crossing the Schuylkill River on the Schuylkill River Bridge near Norristown.
Democratic elected officials and some mass transit advocates criticized the plan as being vague and as lacking any suggestion of an alternative to the tunnel as an aid to commuters who cross the Hudson River every day.
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Over the weekend, Gov. David A. Paterson, who supports the plan, amended legislation to give breaks to low-income drivers and to allow commuters who cross the Hudson River from New Jersey to pay only tolls — not an additional congestion charge — if the Port Authority of New York and New Jersey agrees to make a substantial contribution to the M.T.A. capital budget.
