Sentence examples for expensive transit from inspiring English sources

Bills, scissors and expensive transit passes went missing.

Except that his insanely expensive transit station at the World Trade Center site is unstoppably under construction.

The fare for Atlanta's trains and buses will jump to $2.50 in October, giving the city one of the more expensive transit systems in the country.

NATO has already signed an alternative, albeit more expensive, transit agreement with Central Asian states if the Pakistan talks fall through.

Further, transportation and engineering experts said, lawmakers have financed a boom in rail construction that, while politically popular, has resulted in expensive transit systems that are not used by a vast majority of American commuters.

She said the project's cost creep is one of the reasons the town has called for the state to more thoroughly study less expensive transit options, such as a rapid bus system.

Rather than relieving congestion, the mantra is giving people "transportation choices" in the form of expensive rail transit.

Expensive public transit systems that require constant investment from taxpayers?

We should focus on providing better and less expensive mass transit from the suburbs, expanded express subway options throughout the city, incentives to companies to use trucks that pollute less, strict enforcement of laws against idling, reduced fees for registering vehicles that meet tighter emission standards and safe bicycle lanes throughout the city.

"Too many American cities are spending far too much money on expensive rail transit projects, which are used for only 1 to 2percentt of local travel, and far too little on highway projects which are used for 95 to 99percentt of local travel," Randal O'Toole, a senior fellow with the Cato Institute, said in an e-mail interview.

Handling all those tokens -- emptying them from turnstiles, delivering bags of them to token booths, counting them out to riders -- is cumbersome and expensive, and transit officials have long looked forward to the day when most of their business with riders would involve exchanges of electrons, not metal and paper.