O.K., when did you last hear either of them utter the phrase mass transit?
The way Ed Daniels figures it, if the VA Medical Center New York were to close, the effects on him could be summed up in one phrase: mass transit.
He is what he is, a wiseacre from Essex County who knows what is important in life, and who understands that when the Romans coined the phrase sic transit gloria, they weren't talking about the on-time performance of the Midtown Direct.
For one thing, there's the phrase "during the transit," which assumes that transit had begun.
Ms. Birckhead also said that the American Airlines 767 aircraft was not a "mass transportation vehicle," saying that phrase referred only to subways, buses, ferries and other forms of urban mass transit.
Under federal law, the transit authority must find replacement housing deemed "comparable," a phrase that officials have interpreted to mean an apartment of a similar size and rent, in the same neighborhood or nearby.
It is called the farebox operating ratio, an unlovely phrase for calculating what riders pay out of their own pockets to keep a transit system going.
An article on Saturday about unusual subway advertisements included an erroneous identification from transit officials for the production whose ad featured a flock of birds with the phrase "Omnium Finis Imminet," Latin for "The End of All Things Is Near".
They say the phrase 'transit-dependent' almost with a sneer.
See elevated transit line; mass transit; subway.
