New York City Transit is an amalgam of two private subways (Interborough Rapid Transit and Brooklyn-Manhattan Trandit) and one municipal line (the Independent).
nytimes.com/sports CITY ROOM: Us and the Lampposts In theory, the distinctions between New York City Transit's two private subways and its one municipal line were erased long ago.
This goes without saying, of course, but it operates via via fiber-optic cable strung through local municipal sewage lines.
Los Angeles and neighbouring counties are also served by a patchwork of shuttle and other municipal bus lines.
He opened up City Hall to the people, gave out his e-mail address, established municipal hot lines.
Since then, however, the county has been complying -- spending about $39 million to rehabilitate municipal sewer lines and $33 million to build large concrete containers at the New Rochelle sanitary system to chlorinate and hold overflow during heavy rains.
Typically located in rural areas, private wells serve residents not connected to municipal water lines.
Some treated municipal water lines flow into Kibera, but the pipes are corroded and sewage seeps in.
The problem: Clusters of mostly black residential areas just outside the town limits, in a neighborhood called Coal Run, were denied access to the municipal water lines.
There are about 300 kiosks in these neighbourhoods, which are connected to the municipal water lines, and their rehabilitation represents a sustainable, concrete move to reduce post-earthquake reliance on expensive water brought in by truck.
