It also has apps to help with the Icelandic lingo, information on road conditions and the weather, plus a children's area to keep the kids happy in transit.
Nevertheless, Ms. Dugger is happy that mass transit is winning over converts.
Governor Pataki's plan to make certain that all buses purchased by the Metropolitan Transportation Authority burn clean fuel is a happy advance over New Jersey Transit's agreement to buy a horde of dirty diesel buses.
She is an expert on the work of the observatory in the 18th century, when the first global scientific collaboration centered on the transits of 1761 and 1769 and is happy to answer questions about all historical transits of Venus from the 17th century onwards.
"In general, we are happy with where we are," said Paul Fleuranges, New York City Transit's vice president for corporate communications.
Even one of the transit system's harshest critics was happy for a respite from the heat.
While in transit to a "harvest camp" (a happy death camp, complete with live music), he escapes, outwits the "juvey cops" and runs into Risa and Lev.
"I was very happy to see the animators come to the transit centre," says Yvette.
"I was very happy to see the animators come to the transit centre," says Yvette. "Before they came, we had nothing to do".
Transit planners and some riders were quite happy: an honest-to-goodness new line, and nine more trains per hour squeezed into Manhattan during the morning rush.
