According to longstanding practice, transit officials -- five M.T.A board members, along with Peter S. Kalikow, the authority's chairman, and Katherine N. Lapp, its executive director -- sat silent and mostly unsmiling last night at a long table, sometimes taking notes, as a parade of more than 100 speakers denounced the plans.
Such a move would break from Maryland's longstanding system of transportation funding, under which the same fees and taxes apply in all parts of the state and revenues are funneled into a Transportation Trust Fund to support roads, mass transit and other modes of travel.
Controversy over the new light rail system linking Trenton and Camden, known as the River Line, is another chapter in a longstanding tradition that characterizes American mass transit (Briefings, March 14).
Traditionally, tolls have risen along with fares, and the extra toll money has been used to help keep fares down as part of a longstanding public policy to encourage mass transit use.
On Thursday afternoon, the authority released a statement saying that it would "amend its longstanding practice of issuing free passes on the agency's transit network to its current and former board members".
Esophageal transit is delayed in ∼50% of patients with longstanding diabetes and may be associated with regurgitation, dysphagia, and a propensity for pill-induced esophageal erosions and strictures.
When we do a project like that we think about bang for the buck: does it serve enough people to make it something we want to expend scarce capital on?" Almost immediately after the World Trade Center attack, real estate forces, transit advocates and public officials all understood that a historic moment was at hand to fix many longstanding problems with Lower Manhattan transportation.
But how longstanding is longstanding?
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