But I would remind those who might prefer that such a critically located piece of Brooklyn remain a vast hole in the ground, occupied by idle commuter trains, of what James Agee wrote of Brooklyn in 1939: "Lacking any center in remote proportion to its mass, it is perhaps the most amorphous of all modern cities".
In Iceland, where interest rates have risen to record levels of around 18percentt, construction cranes stand idle among half-finished homes in commuter suburbs near Reykjavik, many of them off-plan developments.
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.
The advent of cell phones has forced millions of people sitting in restaurants, reading on commuter trains, idling in waiting rooms, and attending the theatre to become party to the most intimate details of other people's lives their breakups, the health of their portfolios, their psychotherapeutic progress, their arguments with their bosses or boyfriends or parents.
The advent of cell phones has forced millions of people sitting in restaurants, reading on commuter trains, idling in waiting rooms, and attending the theatre to become party to the most intimate details of other people's lives — their breakups, the health of their portfolios, their psychotherapeutic progress, their arguments with their bosses or boyfriends or parents.
The climb over the wall has become so much a part of the daily routine for the residents of Abu Dis that vans idle in rows at either side to pick up the commuters.
While commuters in the rest of smog-shrouded Southern California idle in traffic snarls or dart in and out of fast lanes, most Catalina commuters putter around the island's bungalow-lined streets in golf carts at a steady clip of 12 m.p.h.--rarely any slower or any faster.
At the downtown Burbank Metrolink station, already one of the busiest stations in the system, commuters rush across the two tracks when a train is idle, mostly behind a northbound train.
Caltrain commuter trains in the Bay Area may have to sit idle for up to seven minutes while bullet trains pass by, according to a 2016 rail authority planning document prepared by a Swiss consultant.
Amongst these microenvironments, bus stops are critical because of the commuters' close proximity to fresh fumes rich in particles emitted by passing, idling and accelerating buses and motor vehicles, in general.
Neil Erickson of Liberty Lines, a commuter service at 26th Street and Madison Avenue, said buses no longer needed to idle to keep engines warm.
