He held his tongue when the head of the transit union told him to shut up.
"We can see what the dog is seeing," John Pappas, the head of the transit squad, told me.
In 1990 the then head of the transit police, Bill Bratton, directed his officers to arrest as many turnstile-jumpers as possible.
But Joseph E. Hofmann, the head of New York City Transit's subway division, said that he expected service to return to normal by this morning's rush.
Some candidates want to give the mayor control of the M.T.A. board and power to appoint the head of New York City Transit, the agency within the M.T.A. that runs the city's subways and buses.
The United States "is a developing country in terms of rail," Ansgar Brockmeyer, head of public transit business for Siemens, said in an interview aboard the Russian test train, as wooden country homes and birch forests flickered by outside the window.
"He has been doing this for so long that he knows all the terminology and he knows how to operate the equipment," said Sgt. Jack Cassidy, who heads police investigations of transit crimes.
While Mr Bratton was head of New York's transit police in 1990, he ordered his officers to arrest as many turnstile-jumpers as possible.
"We have a pretty good sense of different things we can do to speed up the transit service," said Ed Reiskin, head of the transportation agency.
The filing deadline for the race to succeed the outgoing mayor, Richard Daley, is 22 November, and the Chicago Sun-Times reported yesterday that Terry Peterson, head of the city's transit authority, had signed up as Mr Emanuel's campaign manager.
