Sentence examples for forced commuters from inspiring English sources

Actually, we already know: Kenya got a brief preview in 2010, when a two-day strike to protest harassment by opportunistic police forced commuters to walk to work.

The closing of Hoboken Terminal, which serves six New Jersey Transit rail lines, forced commuters to make do with contingency plans provided by New Jersey Transit, the third-busiest commuter rail system in the country.

In a nation where you can set your watch by a train's arrival and a conductor apologizes for even a one-minute delay, rolling blackouts have forced commuters to leave early so they will not be stranded when the trains stop running.

In California, one protest even led to a temporary shutdown of the West Oakland BART train station as demonstrators forced commuters to find alternative routes of travel.

Trying to force commuters to travel at different times seems to have failed.

Bus drivers refused to make their rounds in protest over the gasoline price rise, forcing commuters in Lima and other cities to walk for miles to work.

Rain and snow regularly sabotage the escalators at some of Washington's 53 exposed Metrorail subway stations, forcing commuters to hike up hundreds of idle steps.

And in late August, a cable fire that damaged a critical switching tower near Jamaica Station disrupted service for a week, forcing commuters to rearrange their schedules to cope with cancellations.

If you set appropriate road tolls and have a well-functioning market for carpooling, there is no need for regulators to force commuters into arrangements they don't want.

The region's public transit agencies are drawing up contingency plans in case Amtrak workers strike in two weeks, which would force commuters in New Jersey and on Long Island to find other ways to get into Manhattan.

Visibility was so poor buses and taxis ground to a halt, forcing commuters to hurry underground to use the Tube.