Others took the inconvenience more in stride, including David Plouffe, the campaign manager for Senator Barack Obama.
Transportation advocates and top transit officials complained that the railroad proposal might benefit 25,000 Long Island executives who work downtown, but it could inconvenience more than 100,000 subway riders.
Mr. Hall also criticized Mr. Toussaint for saying that a union rival allied with Mr. Hall had fomented the seven-week strike, which involved 1,500 workers and inconvenienced more than 100,000 riders.
The strike, against three private Queens bus lines -- the Queens Surface Corporation, the Triboro Coach Corporation and Jamaica Buses Inc. -- has inconvenienced more than 115,000 people who ride the buses each day.
Gifford Miller, the Council speaker, who was born in 1969, said that while he had received contributions from people associated with the bus companies and the unions, the Council was doing what it could to end the strike, which has inconvenienced more than 100,000 daily riders for more than a month.
"It's an inconvenience more than anything.
These minor inconveniences mask more insidious problems.
Yet for Mr. Swartzlander these inconveniences are more than fair trade for the top creative post at "Cougar Town," which on Tuesday began its fourth season, after moving from ABC to uncertain basic-cable turf on TBS.
And companies such as Ubisoft and EA have come under fire for their relentless use of DRM systems and proprietary platforms in an effort to curb illegal exploitation of official product, something gamers say often inconveniences buyers more than it does pirates.
