As thousands of Tube workers staged a second 24-hour strike over job cuts, commuters looked to the city's other transport systems to make their journeys to work.
Regardless of Steinbrueck's bluster, the German government has quietly accepted a Federal Constitutional Court ruling on Tuesday that demanded compensation for a 2007 cut in commuter subsidies.
We are actively looking at work/life flexibility programs that would cut employee commuter miles and we'll continue to educate employees on how they can also save energy at home.
The line has cut many commuters' journeys from the city's poor periphery by half an hour.
To date, even in the face of cutbacks across the board, no employer registered with the Best Workplace for Commuters Program has opted to cut out its commuter benefits, the EPA says.
Last month, Prime Minister José Luis Rodríguez Zapatero introduced energy-saving measures to offset rising oil prices that included ordering regions to cut fares on commuter trains 5 percent to encourage more use of public transport.
Sat in front of the mainline train station at the top end of the North Laine, this pencil-straight street is often the first road visitors and commuters cut down to reach the centre of town.
In suburban Contra Costa County, east of San Francisco, meanwhile, stimulus money would start crews moving on a $2.5 million project to resurface a stretch of Vasco Road, a popular and treacherous commuter cut-through that has been the scene of deadly accidents, including a 2006 wreck that killed four construction workers.
"How can you tell us a commuter tax cut is wrong, yet you want to eliminate a $2 hotel surcharge on the Waldorf-Astoria paid by people from Europe, California and Chicago," said Assemblyman Herman D. Farrell Jr., a Democrat from New York City who is chairman of the Ways and Means Committee.
The neighborhood is full of traffic — commuters now cut through the neighborhood — making it hard on the kids and the viejas, who are used to empty streets.
