Ms. Yapu, a hospital worker, was relieved to learn that the station in Jersey City she had chosen was administering a relaxed emissions test under the order of the transportation commissioner, James Weinstein.
The 2.7 percent fall in orders outside of transportation reflected weakness in a number of categories.
But the protests have gotten the attention of the governor of Florida, Charlie Crist, who on Friday ordered his secretary of transportation to review the company's record.
This law defined several new legislative routes, which "may be added by order of the commissioner of transportation to the trunk highway system" (as opposed to other such routes, which were added to that system by the legislature): Legislative Route No. 380.
The rise in factory orders was largely the result of a jump in orders for transportation goods — which rose 18.5percentt — and commercial aircraft, which doubled from a month earlier.
His wife, Iris Weinshall, perhaps out of love and perhaps because she is the New York City Commissioner of Transportation, orders him to put on his safety helmet.
Outside of transportation, orders for machinery, primary metals, capital goods, computers and electronic products all rose.
Meanwhile, orders for transportation equipment in October plummeted 16.1percentt, mostly because of weaker demand for airplanes and aircraft parts.
Orders for transportation equipment surged 42.2percentt in June, mainly because of a jump in demand for aircraft, the Commerce Department said.
In addition, streetcar removal cut the capacity of the streets by an order of magnitude in terms of transportation capacity.
