Sentence examples for drivers subway from inspiring English sources

Many are first-time homeowners eager to keep their neighborhoods tidy and who hold jobs as teachers, taxi drivers, subway conductors and store managers in New York City, New Jersey, Westchester or Rockland.

Ms. Scroggins, 44, whose band, E.S.G., was once popular on the New York club scene, is one of four transit workers — two bus drivers, a subway train operator and a subway car inspector — who have been arrested in recent days and charged with making false workers' compensation claims, Charles J. Hynes, the district attorney, said at a news conference in Brooklyn.

The Metropolitan Transportation Authority plans to lay off hundreds of bus drivers and subway workers by July 4, as the agency prepares to carry out severe service cuts to the city's mass transit system.

Bus drivers and subway personnel also often refused to offer any assistance to disabled passengers, including helping out when other passengers refused to give up seats reserved for the disabled, the report said.

Faced with staggering costs, we squabble along partisan lines, pitting drivers against subway riders, suburbanites against city-dwellers, red versus blue — blocking change in the name of prudence, missing one after another opportunity for progress.

"Our goal is to have 40percentt of taxi and bus drivers and subway workers able to exchange a few words with foreigners by next summer," said Ding Huaitang, a senior Traffic Bureau official.

He said his plan was needed not just to help close the M.T.A.'s $1.2 billion budget gap, but to ensure that all constituents — including drivers and subway, railroad and bus riders — share the burden.

PAGE A22 New York M.T.A. PLANS TO LAY OFF Hundreds More Workers The Metropolitan Transportation Authority plans to lay off hundreds of bus drivers and subway workers by July 4, as it prepares to carry out severe service cuts to the city's mass transit system.

Some 4,300 bus drivers and subway and light rail operators walked off the job Friday night in a strike against the Metropolitan Transportation Authority, the regional agency that administers a public transit system covering 1,400 square miles with 2,000 buses, the nation's second-largest fleet after New York's, plus 59 miles of subway and light rail track.

Meanwhile, transit officials made what they called their "last, best and final offer" to striking bus drivers and subway operators on Tuesday night and gave the union leadership until Thursday morning to accept it or face the prospect of the Transportation Authority's sending copies of the offer directly to 4,300 members' homes in an effort to persuade them to end the strike.

Its bus terminals have become bases for commuter-dependent economies – street vendors fry up meals to serve the army of workers before dawn, and in the evenings, unlicensed taxi drivers circle subway stations, car-pooling workers home.