Sentence examples for congestion transit from inspiring English sources

"But you've been standing on the platform and you know there hasn't been a train for 15 minutes, so where's the congestion?" Transit officials cite track work, customers holding doors, sick and unruly riders and signal trouble as the leading causes for the delays, based on reports from train crews.

The vicious circle of congestion slowing transit and discouraging its use has reached a dead end, and a new generation is turning to bicycles and other smart transit choices.

Car congestion and transit design are simultaneously introduced and consumers choose based on the full price they perceive.

The optimization variables are the congestion toll, the transit fare (and hence the level of subsidies) and transit frequency.

As a high-capacity transportation mode that is free from surface road congestion, urban rail transit has witnessed significant expansion in many cities during recent decades despite the substantial investment needed for its construction and maintenance.

Both projects are vital to relieving transit congestion in the city.

The alternative is to stand by and watch the steady and catastrophic deterioration of facilities, worsening traffic congestion and declining transit service.

Without congestion pricing, mass transit won't have the nearly $500 million that would have been raised annually by charging most cars $8 and trucks $21 to enter Midtown and Lower Manhattan during the busiest hours on weekdays.

If one lets one's imagination soar a little, one can envision service extending north, sharing the Amtrak cut, to serve 42nd Street and the major Penn Yards developments in the West 60's, relieving transit congestion, about which critics of those projects have a legitimate concern.

Many persons may experience 'transport problems', for instance because of road congestion or inconvenient transit itineraries.

The locomotive optimizes fuel burn, predicts pending maintenance issues, schedules itself to avoid congestion while in transit and reduces idle time at the rail yard.