Sentence examples for off the transportation from inspiring English sources

If the Paradise could reclaim some of its old grandeur, there was no reason to write off the transportation authority as beyond a comeback if it could get some help.

But even opponents of the plan say that it is far too early to write off the transportation measure and consign it to the fate that the most recent ballot question, $2.4 billion for school construction, suffered when voters turned it down three years ago after a similarly halfhearted campaign by state leaders.

At the sole debate in the governor's race last fall, he teed off on the transportation authority, repeating a long-discredited canard about the agency's "two sets of books" and complaining that "no one is in charge of the M.T.A".

You can off-set some of the transportation costs when on the ground though.

Each week, our blog of news and conversation about the five boroughs features a roster of regular columns: OFF THE RAILS Michael M. Grynbaum, transportation reporter, takes you on his travels underground and above (Monday).

Uber's flying taxis are taking off, as the transportation upstart looks for new ways to shorten trips made long because of distance or traffic congestion.

That's bad news for New York's mass-transit riders because there is no other visible way to head off fare increases that the transportation authority's board voted on Thursday, to take effect in March.

That could be an elegant solution, allowing the Pakistanis to claim a major concession while the Americans write off the cost as a transportation expense.

The transportation minister, Andrew Adonis, broke off election campaigning on Friday to take charge of the situation, said one government official not authorized to speak publicly.

"You have a false income when you're governor, because you live in the executive mansion," he said, ticking off the perks: free meals, free transportation, free staff.

Had so many N.F.L. and college football games not been put off, the networks had elaborate ground transportation plans to move their announcers and crews nationwide.