Sentence examples for overcrowded line from inspiring English sources

Alessandra Stanley (NYT) FRANCE: WOMEN PROTEST -- Tired of being groped, female commuters on the often overcrowded Line A that connects the center of Paris to its suburbs, have asked the city's transit authority to set aside cars just for women.

Depending on the specific design, a 20% length increase of the overcrowded line could move 1.9 5.7 percentage points of ridership to an alternative, underutilized line.

The change could remove up to 10 passengers per car during the highest peak, reducing the number of highly congested half-hour periods (max load = 100 120 passengers per car) on the overcrowded line from 4 to 1, and the number of crush periods (max load > 120 passengers per car) from 3 to 1.

Second, the dead-end tunnel cuts out all of New England and Eastern Canada from essential rail capacity growth; the less expensive Penn Station alignment allows for it, and also allows a future connection to Grand Central Terminal that would take hundreds of thousands of subway riders off overcrowded lines in Midtown.

The team's presentation was slick and the options many: a curious bus rider could easily find and avoid rush hours and commonly overcrowded lines — and a Department of Transportation researcher could just as easily look at city-level data as it evolves over months and years, finding trends and spotting impending crunches.

Specifically, it tests whether extending the appearance of an overcrowded subway line on the Washington DC subway map would encourage passengers to use other underutilized lines.

Meanwhile, in the overcrowded downtown lines, passengers are stacked up the stairs.

And that arrangement will shift some people from overcrowded subway lines.

Mr. Squadron emphasized his experience as a legislator, saying he had championed ethics reform in Albany and prompted transit officials to review conditions on overcrowded subway lines.

As far as trains were concerned, there was a need for more capacity – but this was largely on overcrowded commuter lines around big cities such as London, Bristol and Manchester.

Ferry service will help take pressure off of already-overcrowded subway lines and offer a sustainable, efficient commute to New Yorkers in all five boroughs.