Finally, because they are operated by professional drivers, buses have a lower accident rate than automobiles.
As we have read countless times, New York under Mayor Bloomberg and his smart, hardworking team at the DOT is remaking itself into a city known for its parks, open space and complete streets philosophy that recognizes the role the roads play for drivers, buses, pedestrians and bikers in mobility and recreation.
It prods drivers onto buses and makes space for them on the roads.
REAL power in Bolivia often seems to lie with the transportistas, the owner-drivers of buses and taxis who ferry people and goods around a big, sparsely populated country of difficult geography and alarming roads.
As a cyclist, I have to risk my life getting on and off the Brooklyn Bridge, dodge hostile drivers and buses while swerving away from potholes and raised metal planks.
Susan Kassapian, assistant general counsel for the Department of Consumer Affairs, said that the new findings, buttressed by 12 Police Department summonses issued this week to Apple Tours drivers operating buses unlawfully, were grounds to halt the company's operations immediately.
She agreed that the streets around the church should not be used as a layover stop by the drivers, whose buses traverse more than a dozen routes that lead to the nearby Roosevelt Avenue subway station.
If so, it could provide such information as where the card was bought and where it had been used, and those details might lead to videos at subway stations or to the drivers of buses the killer had taken.
Replacing London's driver-operated buses with driverless vehicles would provide large cost savings as part of a "paradigm shift" in the way people travel, according to a controversial passage in a document published by Boris Johnson this week.
The court found that the prosecution's witnesses, including the managers of hotels where Israelis were staying and the drivers of buses that Mr. Yaacoub watched, "have proven reliable and had no interest in lying before the court," Judge Psara-Miltiadou said.
