Sentence examples for increase transit from inspiring English sources

Since the transportation authority voted on Wednesday to increase transit fares, these riders soon will be paying $2.50.

While trying to sort out the reason for the increase, transit officials stumbled upon a software glitch that was causing errant error messages for riders.

Subway and bus riders who use monthly unlimited-ride MetroCards would be hit the hardest under a revised proposal to increase transit fares, which is to be announced today by the Metropolitan Transportation Authority.

A proposal by the Metropolitan Transportation Authority to increase transit fares and tolls in 2009 drew sharp criticism from an array of powerful officials on Tuesday, as the mayor, City Council speaker and Assembly speaker said they would oppose it, and the governor pledged "to do everything I can to prevent it".

Transit-friendly development has recently become a popular strategy to increase transit mode share in the United States.

For example, a logistic regression model for Hamilton, Canada, shows that a 4%% increase in job accessibility would increase transit by 0.2 0.5 % [11].

The increased transit benefit would primarily help suburban commuters, whose costs often exceed the current cap.

That's whining you hear -- over higher taxes and fees, layoffs, increased transit fares, rising rents and even the slow start by the Mets.

"They have been pushing rail expansion for decades now," Mr. Rubin said, "and it has not had much of an impact in terms of increasing transit ridership.

Although Congress has increased transit support in recent years, it is still too stingy to maintain stable services in many areas.

Since the last tax cut, in 2001, state university tuition has increased, transit fares have increased, municipal and property taxes have jumped, firehouses are closing and police officers and other municipal workers are being laid off by the thousands.